The Department of Correctional Services’ transition to an automated information security system still lags behind. Three of the Department of Correctional Services’ (DCS’s) critical ICT systems are still on the back foot, the parliamentary portfolio committee heard this week. This is despite the auditor-general (AG) of SA’s repeat findings on the department’s lagging ICT strategy….
South Africa’s data centre industry has cautiously welcomed the government’s move to designate data centres as critical infrastructure, though key details – including what incentives will be offered and how the policy will be implemented – remain unclear. As TechCentral reported on Wednesday, finance minister Enoch Godongwana used his budget speech to place data centre…
Marcelo Vieira, Partner, KPMG South Africa and Darren Lentz, Digital Trust Lead, KPMG. Digital trust is the invisible contract that lets people, businesses and governments rely on digital systems for critical interactions. Without it, digital public infrastructure (DPI) – the shared digital rails for payments, identity and data exchange – cannot scale or deliver the…
A new scramble for Africa is underway. It is not marked by warships or colonial flags, but by battery supply chains, green transition targets, and high-level trade delegations. The race is for lithium, cobalt, graphite, manganese, platinum group metals and rare earth elements — the minerals powering electric vehicles, renewable energy systems and digital infrastructure….
“Israel is concerned that in the haste to get a deal with Iran, the president might embrace a deal that doesn’t address Iran’s missile programme or support for proxy groups, or that allows it to have some remnant of its nuclear programme,” said Daniel Byman, a professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
The United States is developing plans with Mexico, the European Union and Japan to implement minimum prices for critical minerals, the U.S. trade representative said Wednesday. The Trump administration is exploring a partnership with Mexico on critical minerals as part of a scheduled review of the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, or USMCA, by July 1….
Global cholera vaccine supply has now increased to a level sufficient to allow the resumption of life-saving preventive campaigns for the first time in over three years, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, UNICEF, and the World Health Organization (WHO) announced today. Mozambique is the first country to restart preventive vaccination, following the halt in 2022 caused…
As the world shifts to clean energy, minerals such as lithium, cobalt and manganese have become as important as oil once was. Africa holds large reserves of these critical minerals. Yet they are mostly exported as raw materials, returning as expensive green technologies made in factories overseas. South Africa’s G20 presidency set up a new…
Not long ago, industrial work across Africa was defined by risk. In sectors like mining, ports, logistics and heavy manufacturing, dangerous conditions were seen as part of the job. Fatal accidents, equipment failures and human exposure to hazardous environments were often treated as operational realities rather than preventable outcomes. Today, that mindset is undergoing a…
NewsFeed A ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia has come into effect after weeks of deadly fighting across the border. Al Jazeera’s Assed Baig says artillery fire has stopped but the next 72 hours will be a critical test of whether the truce holds. Hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians are hoping it lasts. Published On…
