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Dept of Communications & Digital Technologies

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17.09.2026Communications and Digital Technologies welcomes clean audit outcomes achieved by its entitiesThe Department of Communications and Digital Technologies welcomes the clean audit outcomes achieved by three of its entities, Sentech, the Film and Publication Board (FPB), and the National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa (NEMIS...
14.09.2026South Africa: AI Has Arrived in South Africa's Boardrooms - but Company Law Hasn't Caught UpAI is beginning to influence how boards of directors make decisions in South African companies. Directors use it to do things like assess financial information, predict market trends or identify potential risks before making strategic decis...
04.08.2026South Africa’s AI policy collapse shows up in World Bank reportSouth Africa has been excluded from the World Bank’s global map of economies with a national AI strategy, a direct consequence of the collapse of the country’s draft AI policy in April. The exclusion appears in World Development Report 2026...
01.08.2026Minister Solly Malatsi on the 90th anniversary of the SABCToday, the South African Broadcasting Corporation marks a significant milestone in its history with the public broadcaster reaching its 90th anniversary. Established on this day in 1936, the SABC has expanded from a single radio service int...
06.07.2026‘Functioning but limping’: PSC lays bare the rot at SitaMore than R2-billion in irregular expenditure, a quarter of tenders that never resulted in an award and procurement matters stuck in adjudication for more than 400 days on average: that is the picture of the State IT Agency (Sita) painted b...
02.06.2026South Africa: Can South Africa Afford to Keep Starlink Out?Achieving the country's ambitious goal of 100% broadband access by 2030 could require a trade-off between politics and connectivity. Starlink - the satellite service owned by Elon Musk's aerospace company SpaceX - is at the centre of a lice...
30.04.2026Schreiber suspends home affairs officials over fake AI referencesHome affairs minister Leon Schreiber The department of home affairs is suspending two senior officials with immediate effect after AI “hallucinations” were found in the reference list appended to the revised white paper on citizenship, immi...
28.04.2026The AI policy that AI brokeSouth Africa’s draft national AI policy is not the first hallucination-fuelled blunder of its kind – and it won’t be the last. But it does offer the department of communications & digital technologies an opportunity to redevelop the pol...
23.04.2026Mythos Unleashes New Cyber Era: Banks, Governments Brace for AI ShockwaveAnthropic's Mythos AI model is radically reshaping global cybersecurity and finance. Its unprecedented cyber offensive capabilities swiftly expose vulnerabilities, creating immense risk. Major US banks are gaining access, while European ins...
20.04.2026Hype or not, Mythos is a wake-up call for South African CISOsShould South African organisations be panicked about Claude Mythos? The answer depends partly on whether the model lives up to its own marketing hype and partly on a set of defensive questions that are going to matter regardless. A brief re...
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