FEDUSA president stresses that while AI is reshaping workplaces, it cannot replace humans

COSATU says the alliance has played a crucial role in workers rights in the country.

A global community built around AI-assisted software development has expanded into Nigeria, with the inaugural Lagos edition of Café Cursor connecting local developers to an international network that now spans more than 50 cities. Café Cursor is a city-based meetup format built around users of Cursor, an increasingly popular AI code editor that helps developers […]

MENA venture studio DeepMinds has launched DeepX, a regional deep tech venture-building summit aimed at converting scientific research into commercially viable businesses, with its inaugural event held in Algiers this week. The summit brought together researchers, AI experts, policymakers, founders and investors from the United States, Europe, Asia and across Africa. It is supported by […]

Egyptian artificial intelligence startup Sinai.ai has raised $1.45 million in a pre-seed funding round to develop a platform that converts traditional books into interactive digital formats, in a deal led by KAUST Innovation Ventures and DisrupTech Ventures. Maza Ventures, YOUXEL Ventures and a group of angel investors also participated in the round. The company was […]

South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs has suspended two senior officials with immediate effect after AI-generated hallucinations were discovered in the reference list of its revised white paper on citizenship, immigration and refugee protection — the second cabinet-approved policy document caught with fabricated sources in less than a week. A chief director in the unit […]

A Malawian innovator has won the Best Social Impact Solution category at the 2026 National ICT Innovation Awards for developing an AI-powered eye-control system that enables people with severe motor disabilities to operate computers using only eye movements. Chimwemwe Liwonde, a first-class computing graduate, designed the desktop assistive solution to support individuals with conditions such […]

Africa’s AI Momentum Is Real. The Governance Beneath It Is Not. On 27 April 2026, South Africa’s Communications and Digital Technologies Minister pulled the country’s Draft National AI Policy after it emerged that its reference list contained fictitious academic citations, articles attributed to researchers who had never written them, on topics they had never studied. […]

Recovered proceeds from the NPA’s asset forfeiture operations are directed to benefit the state

COSATU’s Monyaki Lesiba says that some employers do not observe the labour laws.

Congress of South African Trade Unions’ Matthew Parks says that most workers are highly indebted

They are also lamenting poor living conditions and unfair treatment.

A cattle farm in Oudtshoorn was identified as the index farm, after two animals tested positive.

Deputy President Paul Mashatile to deliver keynote address at Cosatu’s Workers’ Day event.

The draft policy was withdrawn after it was found that it has fictitious sources in its references.

COSATU is hosting the national celebrations that coincides with its 40th Anniversary.

Residents of the village and motorists rushed to pull out people from the wreckages.