AI Boom Sends PC Prices Soaring Across Africa | ITWeb Tech Headlines 26 – 31 October 2026
These are the stories making headlines on ITWeb this week. Soaring demand for memory to power AI infrastructure is pushing up computer prices across Africa, with IDC forecasting a 25% drop in African PC shipments in the third quarter of 2026, IDC senior research analyst Isaac Ngatia told ITWeb TV.
ITWeb TV: Agentic AI is fueling rise of the autonomous enterprise | Ep #151
AI agents are moving from assistants that fetch data to co-workers that run tasks end to end. SAP says that shift — the autonomous enterprise — rests on two things most companies underestimate: context and governance. And with mainstream ECC support ending in 2027, South African businesses are running out of room to decide. Chris Tredger speaks to Nazia Pillay, Managing Director of SAP Southern Africa #SAP #AI #ECC
Digital technologies can generate more than R5 trillion in value for SA in the next decade, according to a new Accenture report.