Study underlines Africa’s unique cardiovascular conditions
A University of Cape Town (UCT) led study, the Sub-Saharan Africa Survey of Heart Failure (THESUS II), has found that the conditions of those most affected by heart failure in Africa haven’t changed much. Africans presenting with heart failure are still 10-20 years...
Companies urged to use the Export Block Exemption
The publication of the Block Exemption for Promotion of Exports enabling South African exporters to collaborate in pursuing international markets will not benefit them unless they make full use of the regulation. This is according to the Kwanele Mkhwanazi, director:...
Top 20 African Business Heroes advance to semi-finals
The Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) Prize Competition, a philanthropic initiative of Alibaba Philanthropy, has announced the 20 entrepreneurs who will advance to its 2026 semi-finals in Nairobi later this week. The top 20 were selected from an expanded top 100 cohort...
Anthropic to add watermarking to Claude content
Future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark. This feature complies with the EU AI Act, and will help to determine the likelihood that Claude was involved in writing the text. All artificial intelligence (AI) vendors will have to provide a similar...
Massive growth ahead for humanoid robot market
The global humanoid robot market size is expected to reach $40,5-billion by 2033, registering a CAGR of 38,2% from 2026 to 2033, according to a new report by Grand View Research. The global market for humanoid robots is poised for substantial growth due to rapid...
As debt soars, know what your total exposure it
South Africa is seeing a marked rise in civil debt litigation, with new case data pointing to sharply higher volumes of default judgments, consent orders and summonses for consumer debt. According to Hammond Pole Attorneys, the trend reflects mounting financial...
Cell C restructuring hits Blu Label earnings
Blu Label has issued a trading statement for the year ended 31 May 2026, warning shareholders that earnings will decrease by more than 20% compared to the previous year. The group reports that it would have reports revenue of R9,4-billion, gross income of...
Connected healthcare needs a digital backbone
By Henry Adams, Country Manager at InterSystems South Africa - South African healthcare is being pushed to do more with the systems, people, and budgets already under strain. Public and private organisations may face different pressures, but both are working to...
AI-driven cybercrime moves into operational mainstream
AI, infostealers, vulnerabilities, ransomware, and geopolitical conflict are reshaping organisational risk and compressing the time defenders have to respond, according to Flashpoint’s latest 2026 Global Threat Intelligence Report: Midyear Edition. The threat...
Ransomware attacks double as cyberthreats continue to rise
Organisations worldwide experienced an average of 2 336 cyberattacks per week - a 3% increase month on month and a 16% increase year on year – according to Check Point’s Global Threat Intelligence insights for July. African organisations recorded 3 237 attacks per...
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SA’s AI push is running ahead of its digital foundations
The returns from digital transformation will remain elusive until business leaders confront an uncomfortable truth: the problem isn't the AI, but everything underneath it. By Kgomotso Lebele, country MD at Accenture, South Africa Consider this: you lead a large retail...
Cyber governance central to effective enterprise risk management
Across many organisations, cyber governance is still treated as a parallel discipline to enterprise risk management rather than a core component of it. By Ryan Boyes, senior security administrator at Galix This separation is difficult to sustain, as information...
Meta Business Agent is AI for businesses of all sizes
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Cisco unveils agentic platform for critical IT infrastructure
In an agentic AI world, organisations must act and defend at machine speed and scale. Cisco Cloud Control, unveiled at Cisco Live, is a unified platform built for humans and AI agents to manage, monitor and defend critical IT infrastructure — and the foundation for...
Vertiv debuts converged physical infrastructure digital twin for NVIDIA Omniverse DSX
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Absa and Salesforce expand strategic collaboration,
Absa has announced a significant renewal of its long-standing strategic collaboration with Salesforce, through a new three-year agreement that will support the bank’s growing focus on artificial intelligence, automation, and real-time data insights to create more...
SA’s AI future is being written on the factory floor, not in Pretoria
The irony was palpable when South Africa’s Draft National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy was abruptly withdrawn in April. A document designed to establish the country as an ethical leader in AI governance was found to be riddled with fictitious, AI-hallucinated...
From greylist to greyed out: The hidden risk in SA’s payment infrastructure
South Africa has been off the greylist for just over four months, and now we risk hitting a different, perhaps more worrying, kind of greyish trap: being "greyed out" of the global SWIFT payments network. By Marna Roos, senior client consultant at AfriGIS But the...
Human capital as a risk management strategy
In an increasingly complex risk landscape, businesses often focus on external threats like cybersecurity and supply chain vulnerabilities, writes Thembi Manyike, head of people experience at Santam. Yet some of the most dangerous risks facing South African...
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