Articles about edtech

Local start-up closes indigenous language gap in edtech

Limu Lab has created an interactive language-learning app to help children learn indigenous languages such as isiZulu.

Don’t let AI in schools become the next e-tolls debacle

AI surveillance in education promises efficiency, but like e-tolls, it risks importing foreign systems that fail our people, values and lived realities.

SA robotics, coding teacher gets global award

Nadine Smith from ADvTECH has been awarded the 2025 EDGE in Tech Athena Award for Early Career Leadership.

Joburg overtakes Cape Town as SA’s best start-up hub

South Africa's start-up scene remains stable in 2025, maintaining its 52nd position in the global ranking of the start-up ecosystem.

Bridging the gap: New Insights Report unpacks EdTech’s challenges, solutions for African classrooms

The report explores how language barriers and infrastructure gaps hinder EdTech adoption in South African schools, despite its potential to enhance learning.

Old Mutual to take Moneyversity into metaverse

The insurance company revamps its Moneyversity financial literacy platform, to introduce AI-based capabilities.

MTN SA’s Y’ello Care Bus takes edtech to rural schools

The ‘tech library on wheels’ distributed digital technologies to 4 700 children in 11 schools during Youth Month.

Transforming higher education: How technology innovates, shapes learning

Adapt IT's ERP system, ITS Integrator, offers solutions designed to effectively align student experiences with institutional processes.

PurpleZA to launch new professional development platform for self-learning teachers

The Digicloud education partner and Google for Education Innovator Project is one of a handful of African organisations to achieve the Google Cloud Specialisation in Education Services.

Injini, Mastercard Foundation invite applications for edtech accelerator

The initiative provides local edtech start-ups with funding, skills development, mentorship and more.

Woodridge College readies learners for 4IR future

The Eastern Cape-based independent school opens an edtech centre to give learners hands-on 4IR experience.

VIDEO: Edtech start-up teaches African languages using AR

With four language options, the augmented reality platform has a total of 15 000 users and 400 weekly active users.