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Lelapa AI Adds Voice Generation and Looks Beyond Africa: 'We Built a Technology That's Beneficial for a Majority World"
2+ hour, 6+ min ago (769+ words) Lelapa AI is adding text-to-speech to its product line and preparing to take its language technology outside Africa, chief executive and co-founder Pelonomi Moiloa has told ITWeb TV — a move that would make the Johannesburg lab an exporter of AI…...
Cape Town's Verascient Raises $1.2m to Give AI Agents Enterprise Memory, After Abandoning Its First Product
1+ week, 36+ min ago (578+ words) Cape Town startup Verascient has raised $1.2 million (R19.5 million) in an oversubscribed pre-seed round to build infrastructure that gives AI agents access to an organisation’s accumulated context — and it got there by abandoning the product it started with. The company first…...
South African AI Collars Now on 2,000 Animals as Rhino Poaching Falls 16%
1+ week, 4+ day ago (631+ words) An AI-enabled tracking collar built by a South African company is now deployed on close to 2,000 animals across more than 60 of the country’s largest reserves — operational scale that puts it well ahead of most African AI deployments, which rarely graduate…...
LINGUA Africa Funds 26 Projects Covering 50+ African Languages, Tied to Health, Farming and Justice Use Cases
3+ week, 19+ hour ago (388+ words) Twenty-six projects have been selected under LINGUA Africa, covering more than 50 African languages, dialects and sign languages spoken by over 500 million people across 47 countries — with each awardee eligible for up to $250,000 in cash and $400,000 in compute credits. The initiative brings…...
Africa???s AI Conversation is Entering a New Phase
3+ week, 4+ day ago (386+ words) The question is no longer whether the continent is ready for artificial intelligence, but what it will do with it. Across energy, infrastructure, business and policy, the foundations are being laid for an AI economy shaped by African priorities. This…...
C??te d'Ivoire Opens Applications for 30-Company Tech Support Programme as AI Adoption Becomes a Ministry Pillar
4+ week, 23+ hour ago (445+ words) Côte d’Ivoire has opened applications for two programmes that will support 30 digital companies over 24 months, launched alongside a ministry roadmap that places AI adoption among seven strategic pillars for the next three years. The eligibility criteria are unusually specific for…...
AFR-IX Telecom to Deploy Pan-African Network Infrastructure Across Raxio's Angola and Mozambique Data Centres
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (571+ words) iAfrica.com...
Nhimbe Trust Wins UNESCO Backing to Push AI Ethics and Artistic Freedom in Southern Africa's Creative Sector
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (590+ words) iAfrica.com...
Noordgesig Library Marks South African Librarians' Day With Focus on Ethical AI in Libraries and Education
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (242+ words) Johannesburg’s Noordgesig Library marked South African Librarians’ Day on July 10, 2026 with a programme centred on how artificial intelligence is reshaping libraries, education and access to information — the latest in a widening set of South African library-sector conversations about how the…...
Kubayi Warns AI Trained on Foreign Data Risks "Digitised Racial Segregation" in South Africa
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (294+ words) Artificial intelligence systems trained largely on foreign datasets risk perpetuating racial bias and undermining South Africa’s transformative constitutional vision if they are not built with local historical context, Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi has warned. Kubayi delivered the…...