The Technology Innovation Agency sold its Kapa stake for $4.9-million months before Roche bought the biotech for $445-million.
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A biometric record of every person in the country will underpin South Africa’s planned new digital ID.
New directors have been appointed to the board of an entity treasury won’t fund and that nearly slid into liquidation.
A revised draft of South Africa’s national policy on AI will only be released for public comment in January 2027.
The home affairs platform uses liveness tests and biometric matching to identify ghost workers on state payrolls.
Two government agencies have moved within hours of each other to knock down reports of system compromises.
The expansion is central to the home affairs department’s plan to finally retire the much-defrauded green ID book.
The communications minister has thrown his weight behind a section 25BB extension that the sector has long sought.
Government must lean more on the private sector in a fiscally constrained environment, communications minister Solly Malatsi has said.
An independent panel chaired by Wits AI researcher Benjamin Rosman will help rebuild the withdrawn draft AI policy.