Artificial intelligence (AI)

Malawi hospitals are using the IMPALA AI monitoring system to warn nurses before sick babies and children become critically ill.

Ugandan innovator Shifra Ainomugisha won a top Commonwealth youth award for using AI and solar power to help farmers save food.

Pick n Pay and Checkers are now using AI shopping assistants to keep customers inside their apps and make grocery shopping easier.

Botswana Minerals says AI has turned 50 years of old drilling records into a fresh copper hunt under the Kalahari.

Mauritius will train 50,000 people in AI while putting the technology into schools, hospitals, licensing, finance and government services.

An AI tool is helping to work out the real spread of the latest Ebola outbreak in the DRC before official case numbers catch up.

Sars says artificial intelligence has already helped block more than R100-million in improper payments as it prepares to use smarter tools this filing season.

Gauteng education leader Lebogang Maile wants to put smart artificial intelligence cameras inside classrooms to stop bad behaviour and protect teachers from school violence.

Siza Khula is now available as a free app on the Google Play Store making it even easier for South Africans to get practical money help. 

The Department of Home Affairs has suspended two senior bosses after they used fake AI research in a major new policy document on immigration rules.

More than half of young people cannot find work because companies say school leavers and graduates lack the practical skills needed to use new technology.

KwaZulu-Natal has deployed more than 3,400 officers and stepped up roadblocks and checks to reduce accidents during the busy Easter holiday.