South Africa’s redrafted national AI policy will not prescribe rules to industry. Instead, individual sectors will be left to write their own AI strategies off a set of national guidelines. That is according to department of communications & digital technologies acting deputy director-general Jeanette Morwane, who told TechCentral on the sidelines of the inaugural Naspers/Prosus…
If an HIV prevention pill that provides a month of protection at a time performs well in two ongoing clinical trials, it could become the next big thing in HIV prevention after the lenacapavir injection. A new licensing agreement is paving the way for South Africa’s Aspen Pharmacare to produce the pill should the study…
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh holds a press conference following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), as the Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady, at the Federal Reserve, in Washington, D.C., U.S. July 29, 2026. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters The Federal Reserve on Wednesday followed through on expectations for no…
President John Dramani Mahama has urged African governments to place the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) at the centre of their development strategies to accelerate the continent’s growth. He stressed that the agreement must serve as a catalyst for industrialisation and economic transformation, rather than become another unfulfilled continental pact. President Mahama made the…
In an effort to bridge the divide between higher education and real-world requirements, Vodacom, the University of Johannesburg (UJ) and Amazon Web Services on Friday, 24 July, announced they have formed a strategic alliance focused on developing highly skilled, employment-ready specialists in artificial intelligence and data science. Supplied image: Leadership from UJ, Vodacom, AWS and…
The CAF Women’s Champions League | COSAFA Qualifier for 2026 will kick off in Gaborone, Botswana, on August 20, with the final scheduled for nine days later. It will be the sixth edition of the regional qualifier for the CAF Women’s Champions League, which was first introduced to the calendar in 2021 and has been…
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The recent wave of unprecedented cocaine seizures across West Africa is no longer a series of isolated criminal incidents. Instead, the arrests, investigations, and intelligence emerging from multiple jurisdictions increasingly point to a sophisticated transnational narcotics network stretching from Latin America through West Africa into Europe. At the center of this network is Dutch fugitive…
Hasnain Motlekar, acting CEO of BCX. Clean and trustworthy data is essential to building a digitally enabled and intelligent company, with business leaders shifting their focus from technology procurement to achieving business outcomes from technology investments. This is according to executives from BCX, Telkom Business and Openserve, who hosted channel partners, industry specialists and customers…
· Oil prices slide as US, Iran pause hostilities over Strait of Hormuz ·Shettima lauds AfDB as REA, SAPZ sign MoU on energy for agro-processing zones Deji Elumoye and Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja The African Development Bank (AfDB) has warned that an expected “super” El Niño weather event could cost African countries between $10 billion…
