Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has described the rollout of malaria vaccines across Africa as the fastest in its history, signalling a critical moment in the fight against one of the continent’s deadliest diseases. 25 countries in Africa have introduced malaria vaccines into their routine immunisation programmes with Gavi support. Early reports indicate that the initiative has had a significant…
Johnson Idesoh, group chief information and technology officer, Absa Group. (Photograph by Lesley Moyo) ChatGPT’s release in November 2022 marked a true technological inflection point; not an incremental shift but a discontinuity reshaping how we work, communicate and create value, says Johnson Idesoh, group chief information and technology officer at Absa Group. He adds that the…
Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone, announced today that it has established a new Point of Presence (PoP) at Open Access Data Centres DUR1, located at 3 Oppenheimer Road, Durban 4000, South Africa. OADC DUR1 offers a secure, carrier-neutral colocation environment with access to regional and international telecommunications providers and Internet exchanges. Situated…
Vukosi Sambo, CEO at STM Healthcare. Large language models (LLMs), not automation, represent the true inflection point in artificial intelligence (AI). This is according to Vukosi Sambo, CEO at STM Healthcare, who says language-centric AI has fundamentally changed how intelligence is accessed and applied. He was one of the keynote speakers at the ITWeb Data…
Vincent Mabaso, head of channel: Africa at Check Point. Check Point Software Technologies has appointed Vincent Mabaso as head of channel for Africa as it looks to bolster its regional channel strategy, supported by three strategic acquisitions. Mabaso, who previously served as the company’s distribution manager, began his duties as channel head in November 2025. The company…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Shelby Tauber/Reuters OpenAI is unsatisfied with some of Nvidia’s latest AI chips, and it has sought alternatives since last year, eight sources familiar with the matter said. The news potentially complicates the relationship between the two highest-profile players in the AI boom. The ChatGPT maker’s shift in strategy, the details of…
SA’s unified digital government citizen services platform will initially be enabled for targeted test groups. Public access to government services platform MyMzansi is set to kick-start in March, focusing on high-impact service use cases. This is based on the quarterly progress report on Operation Vulindlela phase two, released by National Treasury on Friday, zeroing on…
Images of rubber dinghies overcrowded with refugees heading for Europe and narratives about mistreatment and exploitation of migrants on unsafe migration routes have come to dominate how African migration is perceived in European public and policy debates. They suggest a continent on the move, driven mainly by conflict and heading to the global north. These…
Binance South Africa’s Hannes Wessels Regulatory advances in 2025 have laid the foundation for the growth of cryptocurrencies, with their use in domestic payments and cross-border remittances expected to surge this year. “Last year marked a turning point for crypto in [South Africa and the rest of] Africa, shifting from retail‑led speculation and towards institutional…
Iranian authorities appeared to be cutting off internet access Thursday in the capital and some other regions of the country as mass protests and chanting against the government continue. Two sources in Tehran told CBS News the internet was down in the capital. The NetBlocks monitoring organization said Thursday, at about 8 p.m. local time, that its…
