SKA telescope progress, R2bn hospital fraud, AI ethics call, eFiling hijacks, new high-speed network

In this week's tech news roundup on ITWeb, South Africa advanced the global SKA telescope project with the first five dishes operational, while the SIU exposed R2 billion looted from Tembisa Hospital through syndicate fraud. At the same time, minister Solly Malatsi urged ethical guardrails for AI as SA leads the G20 task force, and the Tax Ombud warned of rising eFiling profile hijacking. Lastly, Broadband Infraco partnered with Huawei to launch an 800Gbps backbone network to drive.

Published on 04 October 2025