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South African AI surveillance platform targets global business intelligence market

eriinfo.com1 month ago05 mins

South African security provider CAP is expanding the role of CCTV beyond traditional surveillance, using artificial intelligence to turn existing camera networks into business intelligence tools. Its SmartGuard division, which provides CCTV solutions to more than 400 clients across residential estates, corporate campuses and commercial and industrial properties, currently monitors almost 5,000 cameras. The division…

Top ICT tenders: DPSA targets info security officer training

eriinfo.com1 month ago015 mins

The Department of Public Service and Administration wants to establish a training programme for information security officers across the public sector. National Treasury’s eTenders Portal offers a mixed bag this week, with a broad range of public sector requirements spanning software, hardware and services. It is a tender from the Department of Public Service and…

South Africa targets 2030 for its first satellite launch from home soil

eriinfo.com2 months ago017 mins

South Africa could put a satellite into orbit on a locally built rocket by 2030 – if someone finds R3-billion and the team building it grows sixfold. That is the ambition of the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Aerospace Systems Research Institute (ASRI), which is developing the liquid-fuelled Saffire engine and the two-stage commercial launch vehicle (CLV)…

FSCA targets deepfakes in financial scams crackdown

eriinfo.com2 months ago06 mins

Artificial intelligence deepfakes have become a major financial crime threat. (Image source: iStock) The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) is stepping up enforcement against artificial intelligence (AI)-powered financial scams, as deepfakes become one of SA’s fastest-growing regulatory challenges. The regulator’s newly-released Regulatory Actions Report for the 2025/26 financial year identifies online financial harm as one…

Saudi military strikes Iran-backed Houthi targets in Yemen

eriinfo.com2 months ago06 mins

Fighters supporting the Aden-based internationally-recognised Yemeni government gather during a vigil along the Red Sea shore in Khokha, in Yemen’s western Hodeidah province on July 20, 2026, calling for a resumption of hostilities with the Huthi group currently controlling the capital Sanaa. (Photo by Khaled ZIAD / AFP via Getty Images) Khaled Ziad | Afp…

AI-powered lender Optasia targets SA’s underbanked

eriinfo.com2 months ago010 mins

South Africa is still a cash-based economy, says Optasia. (Image source: iStock) Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered fintech company Optasia is stepping up its push into South Africa, betting that AI-driven credit scoring can unlock financial services for millions of people who remain underserved by the country’s formal banking sector. Speaking to ITWeb in an interview yesterday,…

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Africa: Greenpath Africa Targets Talent Infrastructure to Power AfDB’s Mission 300

eriinfo.com2 months ago03 mins

As the energy landscape faces a profound workforce paradox, GreenPath Africa said it targeted talent infrastructure to power African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Mission 300 in the continent. According to rapport, the continent possesses 60 per cent of the world’s best renewable energy resources, yet it currently accounts for only two per cent of global jobs…

Iran targets U.S. bases in Jordan and Iraq as raging war depletes U.S. interceptor stockpiles

eriinfo.com2 months ago03 mins

Iran’s military said on Friday it carried out drone strikes against several American military facilities and bases in Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait in retaliation for the latest U.S. attacks, while explosions were heard near an American base in northern Iraq. “This morning, the fuel tanks, large equipment warehouses and silos and the barracks of the…

Fat bonuses at Telkom despite group missing own targets

eriinfo.com2 months ago08 mins

Telkom Group CEO Serame Taukobong Telkom missed its own headline financial targets in its 2026 financial year – on revenue, profit and free cash flow – yet most of its top executives took home short-term bonuses that exceeded their on-target amounts, the group’s newly published remuneration report shows. The group performance scorecard, which determines the…

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Africa: Angola’s Agriconnect Compact Targets Food Security, Jobs, and Agricultural Growth

eriinfo.com3 months ago06 mins

Luanda — Angola and the World Bank Group today launched the country’s AgriConnect Compact, a national framework to boost domestic food production, create employment, and mobilize private investment in agricultural value chains. The Compact brings together government, private sector, financial institutions, development partners, and farmer organizations around a shared agenda to transform the country’s agricultural…