Code for Africa has opened applications for the 2026 AI for Good Fellowship, a program supporting African technologists to apply artificial intelligence in strengthening the work of human rights defender organizations across the continent. The fellowship is offered under the Digitalize Youth consortium. The program will support six technologists to collaborate with human rights defenders […]

A Nigerian AI infrastructure startup has launched a platform designed to function as a security layer between AI applications and the models they depend on, addressing what its founders describe as a critical gap as African and global companies rush to ship AI-powered products without adequate guardrails. Cencori, founded in June 2025 by Bola Banjo, […]

The City of Cape Town’s push to manage passenger rail within the metropole received its strongest support yet from the national Department of Transport, with the launch of the draft National Rail Master Plan on 23 April.

AI clinical care platform Heidi has officially launched in South Africa following adoption by 15,000 clinicians in the country, as workforce shortages and administrative burden push healthcare systems toward AI tools that integrate with existing workflows. The launch comes after a wave of clinician-led demand, with adoption now extending beyond individual users into broader system […]

A new report from the Milken Institute argues that artificial intelligence and targeted manufacturing innovation are essential to unlocking Africa’s industrial transformation, with the continent on track to represent a quarter of the world’s population and $16 trillion in business and consumer spending by 2050 — but at risk of continuing to lag in production […]

A cold front is set to dust the Eastern Cape highlands with snow this Friday, and in KwaZulu-Natal, residents have been warned to wrap up warm as the mercury drops.

The Ekangala Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a 37-year-old man to life imprisonment for the rape of his 13-year-old stepdaughter.

In a crowded smartphone market, it’s easy for devices to promise everything and deliver very little. The HONOR 600 Lite takes a different approach—focusing on intuitive design, practical AI, and camera features that work in real life. To put that to the test, the device was placed in the hands of three women aged 70, […]

Two Pretoria learners have made South African science fair history after becoming the first Grade 7 students in 39 years to be named overall winners of the Gauteng-North iMBEWU Science Fair, competing against learners up to Grade 12. Gustav Heesen of Afrikaans Hoër Seunskool and Johan Vorster of Pretoria Boys High School, both formerly from […]

The GSMA and French AI research company Pleias have released CommonLingua, an open-source language identification model covering 334 languages including 61 African languages, addressing a foundational gap in AI systems that has caused African-language text to be routinely misidentified. Released under the GSMA’s African AI Languages Model Project, the two-million-parameter model achieves 83%...

South Africa’s Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Solly Malatsi has withdrawn the country’s Draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy after an internal investigation confirmed that the document contains fictitious sources in its reference list, in what the minister described as an unacceptable failure of integrity. “Following revelations that the Draft National...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming mineral exploration and mining operations across Africa, with countries from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Botswana deploying the technology to accelerate discovery, reduce risk and unlock what analysts estimate is $8.5 trillion in untapped mineral resources. In the DRC, AI is reshaping exploration at scale. Speaking at African Mining […]

Analysis in brief: Africa’s digital evolution is entering a governance phase. African nations are taking control of their online information systems as a part of an overall effort to assert governance over artificial intelligence, data and digital and telecommunications infrastructure to shape long-term economic and strategic outcomes. Digital infrastructure is more than the physical mechanism […]

Three hundred students from Tunisia’s University of Sfax have set a Guinness World Record by building a complete AI-powered startup in less than three hours, demonstrating how artificial intelligence is compressing timelines that would traditionally take weeks or months. The achievement took place during a scientific forum titled “Artificial Intelligence at the Heart of Value […]

Two officers from Florida police station were among eight people arrested in connection with a business robbery at a storage facility in Bedfordview, Ekurhuleni.

Police have arrested a 26-year-old Brazilian national at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg after discovering cocaine with an estimated street value of R8.7 million concealed in the person’s luggage.

Four women were killed in a head-on collision between a sedan and a truck on the R23 between Volksrust and Perdekop in Mpumalanga on Friday night.

More than 6 000 counterfeit items, valued at over R5 million, were confiscated during a two-day operation in the Bloemfontein central business district this week.

Malaria cases in South Africa have spiked following heavy rains and flooding, leading to a surge in cases in Gauteng, a province in which malaria is not endemic.