Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT Communications minister Solly Malatsi has appointed an independent panel of AI researchers, lawyers and governance specialists to rebuild South Africa’s draft national AI policy, a document he was forced to withdraw last month after academic citations in its reference list turned out to have been fabricated by a generative…
Department of Communications and Digital Technologies director-general Nonkqubela Jordan-Dyani. (Photograph by DCDT) The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) has placed two unnamed officials on precautionary suspension with immediate effect, pending the ongoing investigation into the Draft National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy. This, after minister Solly Malatsi recently withdrew the draft policy from public…
Spar Group encountered multiple obstacles during the rollout of the SAP software in 2023. Retail chain Spar has confirmed being hit with a R168.7 million lawsuit by one of its largest franchisees, the Giannacopoulos family, over failures in the SAP system rollout at its flagship KwaZulu-Natal distribution centre. This, after BusinessDay this week reported that…
