Police assure of uninterrupted supply of rape kits
Acting Minister of Police Firoz Cachalia has sought to reassure South Africans that there is no shortage of adult or child rape evidence collection kits anywhere in the country.In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Ministry of Police said rape evidence collection kits remain available nationwide, with additional supplies currently...
In a multi-million-rand blow to the illicit alcohol trade, law enforcement officers caught smugglers red-handed offloading 26 000 litres of irregularly declared high-proof ethanol at an unregistered Kempton Park warehouse on Wednesday.The crackdown was carried out by the South African Revenue Service (SARS), working with the South...
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has warned the public of a new scam circulating via SMS and email claiming that recipients are owed a refund and directing them to a fraudulent website to claim it.SARS said that scammers are now using artificial intelligence (AI) to generate professional-looking email templates that are harder to identify...
Huawei has launched a Partner Joint Industry Solution with four of South Africa’s largest IT services companies — CoCre8 Technology Solutions, Gijima, Altron and BCX — at Huawei South Africa Connect 2026 in Sandton, formalising a partner-ecosystem play the Chinese ICT vendor plans to extend as its template for African expansion. Huawei said its local […]
Vodacom’s AI Lab, the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for Applied Data Science (CADS) and Amazon Web Services have launched a joint programme designed to build a South African AI talent pipeline that runs from short-term courses through to PhD-level research — with students working on live Vodacom projects rather than academic simulations. The collaboration co-develops […]
Seychelles-headquartered fintech Fusepay has launched Fuse360, an AI-native operating system built for wholesalers, distributors and manufacturers — moving the company beyond its payments roots into enterprise software territory that African fintechs are now increasingly contesting. The Fuse360 platform, which launched in Seychelles in July and is scheduled to enter Mauritius in September...
Tunisian agritech startup RoboCare has secured an undisclosed six-figure investment from venture capital firm 216 Capital, funding it will use to expand into new markets across Africa and the Middle East and to keep developing its AI-powered precision agriculture platform. Founded in Sfax in 2020 by Imen Hbiri, RoboCare has built a platform that fuses […]
Munich-based startup Knowlix AI has launched an AI-powered business platform aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises across 29 African countries and a number of markets elsewhere — but is entering the continent with no African customers on its books and a competitive landscape that already includes established global vendors and a growing number of African-built […]