Streaming live from the Johannesburg leg of the ITWeb Security Summit 2026, the ITWeb TV team will host interviews with around 30 keynote speakers, presenters and participants from various sessions on Tuesday, 2 June and Wednesday, 3 June. For those in the cyber security space who cannot attend the physical event, the stream will provide…
Nairobi — Leaders from the private sector, NGOs and development organisations gathered in Nairobi for the Geopolitics of Sustainability in Africa Summit to discuss food security, climate transition and Africa’s economic resilience. The forum highlighted Africa’s push to move beyond raw material exports towards value-added manufacturing, resilient intra-African trade and sustainable economic transformation, amid concerns…
Millions of people in central Africa rely on wild meat for their nutrition, especially in rural areas around the Congo rainforest, the second largest tropical rainforest in the world. Here, meat from domestic animals is scarce due to poor national transport infrastructure, livestock diseases and lack of forage. As a result, wild meat and freshwater…
Cyber threats have evolved faster than most organisations. (Image source: 123RF) Cyber security in 2026 has moved beyond antivirus software and firewalls, and into the executive boardroom, directly influencing how organisations grow, scale and respond to disruptions. Before COVID, the traditional approach made sense: build strong defences, keep threats out and respond when something goes…
The UN Secretary-General on Wednesday underscored the need to effectively re-open the Strait of Hormuz and expand UN Security Council membership to curb the impunity of veto-wielding “superpowers”. António Guterres was addressing a press conference on the final day of an official visit to Japan, which is marking 70 years of cooperation with the UN,…
The United States has imposed sanctions on nine people it accuses of enabling Hezbollah to “undermine Lebanon’s sovereignty”, the latest US effort to destroy the group’s financial networks around the world. In a statement on Thursday, the US Department of the Treasury said the individuals were designated “for obstructing the peace process in Lebanon and impeding…
Kyiv — Ukraine is implementing “enhanced security measures in the northern regions” near its border with Belarus as Russia holds joint nuclear drills with its close ally, for which Moscow says “nuclear munitions were delivered” to field storage facilities. Kyiv announced the heightened security posture along its northern border Thursday after warning for weeks of…
President of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has reaffirmed his commitment to boosting food security across Africa through large-scale fertiliser investments, declaring that the continent has the capacity to feed itself and become a net exporter of agricultural products. Dangote made this known while addressing journalists in Gode, in Ethiopia’s Somali region, during a high-profile…
MiDO Academy graduation 2025 cohort. (Image: supplied by MiDO Academy). Not-for-profit youth empowerment organisation MiDO Academy has developed a strategy – inspired by the Springboks – to bridge the gap between youth labour underutilisation and a critical national shortage of cyber security skills. The academy, part of the MiDO Group which incorporates the MiDO Foundation,…
Lukas van der Merwe, Associate Director, Cyanre. Cyanre, a specialist DFIR firm, is proud to announce its participation at the ITWeb Security Summit 2026, where it will address one of the most critical gaps in modern cyber security: how organisations respond when defences inevitably fail. Taking place at the Century City Conference Centre in Cape…
