Tahir Latif, chief trust officer for EMEA at Securiti AI (a Veeam company), and Johan Steyn, founder of AIforBusiness.net. Business leaders must shift from a “forgiveness over permission” mindset to an “ethics-by-design” approach to unlock the full potential of artificial intelligence in Africa. This was the core message from the ITWeb AI Summit 2026, where…
Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image c/o DCDT The department of communications & digital technologies has confirmed that the Universal Service & Access Agency of South Africa (Usaasa) will be “disestablished”, bringing to an end nearly three decades of involvement by the troubled state entity in the country’s universal access efforts. The confirmation is contained in…
From left: Antony Makins, chairman of the Special Interest Group for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, IITPSA; Dr Machiniba Sylvia Sathekge, CIO, National Health Laboratory Service; Dr Xolile Sibande, information and cyber security expert; and Nkosikhona Nkosi, CIO, CCMA. (Image: Strikapose Studios) Building trust in AI within SA’s public sector will depend on stronger governance, clearer…
The department of communications & digital technologies has formalised a three-year plan to redesign the State IT Agency – an institutional reform effort that has been repeatedly promised over the past seven years but never concluded. The commitment appears in the department’s annual performance plan (APP) for 2026/2027, signed off by the minister, Solly Malatsi….
Azhar Said, chief data officer at Capitec The era of artificial intelligence is not merely a technological trend but a fundamental shift in the economics of decision-making, where the cost of intelligence is plummeting while the value of human reasoning is reaching an all-time high. Speaking at the ITWeb AI Summit in Johannesburg on Tuesday,…
Charge chairman Joubert Roux Off-grid EV charging company Charge will bring its first two stations on the N3 between Johannesburg and Durban live in mid-May, co-founder and director Joubert Roux said in an upcoming interview on the TechCentral Show, marking the commercial debut of a network the company ultimately plans to extend to 120 sites…
Sid Bhatia, AVP and GM for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa at Dataiku. AI enablement platform Dataiku and its South African integration partner, Blue Turtle, participated in the ITWeb AI Summit 2026 and said they are determined to support local AI adoption. The companies believe South African organisations face several challenges that block AI adoption…
Capitec Bank CEO Graham Lee Capitec CEO Graham Lee said on Wednesday that the bank has formally applied for early access to Anthropic’s Mythos model and, after clearing the first hurdle with Amazon Web Services, is now in direct discussions with Anthropic – putting South Africa’s largest retail bank by customer numbers among a growing…
Eugene Perumal, founder and principal of Valutivity. The world’s most consequential technology organisations are no longer building software only − they are building factories. Not factories that produce goods, but factories that produce data-driven intelligence at scale. South African and African enterprise leaders who understand this distinction will capture disproportionate value. Those who do not…
Capitec Bank has put artificial intelligence tools in the hands of almost 5 000 of its employees and is running an agentic AI inside its business banking credit processing operation, according to the group’s 2026 integrated annual report, published on Wednesday alongside its full-year financial results. South Africa’s largest retail bank by client numbers said the…
