South Africa’s banks recorded two branch robberies in 2025. Not two a month – two for the entire year, down from eight in 2024, together yielding just R630 000. In the same 12 months, customers of the country’s biggest banks lodged claims worth R2.4-billion after being defrauded through digital channels. A typical case starts with a…
Chris Oshiafi PAC Research, one of Nigeria’s leading research outfits, has identified financial architecture, digital innovation, regulatory reforms and political commitment as critical to addressing Africa’s more than $100 billion unmet trade finance gap. The research outfit said digital payment systems, blockchain-enabled trade infrastructure, factoring and supply chain finance could significantly widen access to trade…
Outgoing Nedbank COO Mfundo Nkuhlu. Outgoing Nedbank chief operating officer (COO) Mfundo Nkuhlu says the bank’s years-long investment in modernising its technology infrastructure has positioned it to embrace artificial intelligence (AI), as digital capabilities become central to the future of banking. Speaking to ITWeb following the announcement of his retirement after more than two decades…
JSE CEO Valdene Reddy The JSE has sustained a sharply higher rate of software investment into 2026 as it works towards a pan-African digital marketplace by 2031. The exchange spent R75.5-million acquiring intangible assets in the six months to June, three times the R24.4-million it spent in the same period last year. The step-change came…
Accelera Digital Group’s Cliff de Wit Not long ago, organisations were experimenting with generative AI to draft e-mails, summarise documents and answer questions. Today agentic AI is changing what the technology is for. In a conversation on TechCentral’s TCS+ podcast, Cliff de Wit, MD for South Africa and group chief innovation officer at Accelera Digital…
Deputy minister of justice and constitutional development Andries Nel. (Image source: DJCD) Despite digital transformation efforts within South Africa’s judicial system, constraints such as budgets and limited ICT human resource capacity persist. This is according to Andries Nel, deputy minister of justice and constitutional development, speaking yesterday at the Lex-Informatica Cyber Law and ICT Conference…
MTN celebrates 80 graduates from the Western Cape who completed its Digital Skills for Digital Jobs programme. (Image source: MTN South Africa’s Facebook page) MTN South Africa says 80 unemployed young people have graduated from its Digital Skills for Digital Jobs (DS4DJ) programme in the Western Cape. The participants earned accredited qualifications in data analytics,…
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — Africa’s digital revolution is gathering pace, but the financing needed to sustain it remains uneven, fragmented, and often out of reach. To bridge this gap, African multilateral financial institutions, policymakers, development partners, and private sector leaders are calling for a more coordinated, innovative, and better-structured financing approach to support Africa’s digital…
Cyberattacks, data breaches, online harassment and other forms of technology-facilitated violence are becoming significant obstacles to HIV prevention and treatment, according to a UNAIDS specialist who says digital security has become inseparable from the fight against the epidemic itself. As health and social services have moved online, protecting people’s privacy while making sure digital transformation…
Tecnotree Strengthens LATAM Growth with New Digital Transformation Contracts Worth USD 8.8 Million Tecnotree, a global leader in AI-native Digital Business Support Systems (BSS) and digital platform solutions, today announced it has secured new digital transformation contracts across Latin America with a combined value of USD 8.8 million, reinforcing the company’s continued commercial momentum and…
