BMW Group South Africa CEO Peter van Binsbergen Car manufacturers in South Africa are finding it difficult to plan their production lines for future demand because government policy on new energy vehicles (NEVs) remains obscure. BMW Group South Africa CEO Peter van Binsbergen told journalists in Johannesburg on Wednesday that the company’s exports of NEVs…
The Office of the Vice President will co-host the 2026 Africa Social Impact Summit (ASIS) High-Level Policy Engagement, as stakeholders converge to deepen policy reforms and mobilise partnerships to accelerate inclusive growth and national development. Co-hosting with the Sterling One Foundation, the engagement is positioned as a national platform for translating continental development commitments into…
Washington, DC — For generations, American candidates have asked voters a familiar question: Are you better off now than you were four years ago? For Africa, the more urgent question at the end of 2025 is sharper – and inseparable from U.S. foreign policy: Are you better off than you were a year ago, after…
From policies to proof: How BBD scales ESG, DEI and transformation across regions. BBD’s latest Tech Unboxed podcast episode tackles the mandate now facing global organisations: environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles must move from high-level policy to demonstrable, audited practice. The From policies to proof: How BBD scales ESG, DEI and transformation across regions…
The 2025 US National Security Strategy recasts Africa from partner to price tag in a transactional, resource-driven era of great-power rivalry. Amid a turbulent start to the year and the emergence of the ‘Donroe Doctrine’, global policymakers are adjusting to an increasingly muscular, interventionist United States (US) intent on setting the rules. The doctrine is…
Africa — NEARLY one million babies are stillborn in Africa every year. Behind every stillbirth is a mother, a family and a story left untold. Most of these are preventable, many unrecorded, and too often invisible. Each number hides a moment of heartbreak, and every uncounted loss represents a missed opportunity to learn and to…
President Emmanuel Macron has called for a “rebalanced”, “equal-to-equal” partnership between France and African countries, signalling a continued shift away from the military-heavy approach that long defined France’s presence on the continent. Speaking at the Élysée Palace during France’s annual meeting with ambassadors on Thursday, Macron said French policy towards Africa had undergone a fundamental…
ACT CEO Nomvuyiso Batyi Telecommunications industry body the Association for Comms & Technology (ACT) has called for greater transparency of equity equivalent investment programmes (EEIPs) should sector regulator Icasa choose to implement last week’s ministerial policy directive on black economic empowerment. Speaking to TechCentral on Wednesday, ACT CEO Nomvuyiso Batyi said EEIPs in other sectors…
Mlindi Mashologu, deputy director general, ICT Information Society and Capacity Development, DCDT. Mlindi Mashologu, deputy director-general (DDG): ICT Information Society and Capacity Development at the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT), will deliver the opening keynote address at ITWeb’s AI Summit 2026. Mashologu, who assumed his current role in 2020, will share an update…
Communications and digital technologies minister Solly Malatsi. (Photograph by Jesse Sterk) Communications minister Solly Malatsi gazettes the final policy direction on the role of equity equivalent investment programmes in the ICT sector. [Story] Communications minister Solly Malatsi has gazetted the final policy direction on the role of equity equivalent investment programmes (EEIPs) in the ICT…
