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The Draft White Paper on Audio and Audiovisual Media Services and Online Safety proposed establishing age-verification systems for video sharing platforms in South Africa.
A new report delivered to the Minister of Communications identified systemic weaknesses in the State IT Agency’s governance, and flagged over R2 billion in irregular expenditure.
Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Solly Malatsi outlines cabinet’s approval of new SA Post Office board appointments, highlighting stronger governance oversight, and three pre-conditions for exiting business rescue.
The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies revealed when South Africans can expect the new hallucination-free version of the Draft National AI Policy will be published.
Communications minister Solly Malatsi has appointed a professor which Time named as one of the 100 most influential people in AI to chair a panel of experts who will redo the Draft National AI Policy.
A scandal has erupted over the new Draft South Africa National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy, which has been generated with AI and contains numerous fake references.
A University of Johannesburg academic has been awarded a Unesco Chair in Cultural Inclusivity and Equity in Digital Media in Africa, following a competitive global process that drew 135 applications to Unesco headquarters in Paris. Professor Prinola Govenden, based in UJ’s Faculty of Humanities, will lead the chair for the 2026 to 2030 cycle, positioning…
South Africa’s Draft AI Policy is too reliant on foreign AI companies and doesn’t do enough to push local startups, says Chris Coetzee, founder of AfrAIca.
South Africa hopes to fully implement its National AI Policy by the end of the 2027/28 financial year.
Video games is one of South Africa’s fastest growing industries and a MultiChoice-backed company is hoping to help companies keep more of that value inside the country.