ITWeb TV 2025 Wrap-Up: Top Tech Talks on AI, Connectivity & Skills | Ep #128
In 2025, ITWeb TV produced an impressive 45 videos featuring South Africa's top tech leaders, policymakers, and innovators. Hosts Sim Mzekandaba and Sam Mungadze wrapped up the year by reflecting on their standout interviews, highlighting key themes shaping the country's digital future: the transformative potential of AI across Africa, the urgent need to modernize outdated ICT policies, bridging rural connectivity gaps through satellite tech and school STEM hubs.
South Africa is getting closer to a finalised national artificial intelligence policy, confirms communications and digital technologies minister Solly Malatsi.
ICT policymakers need to move much quicker from policy to execution, says Cisco Africa and former 4IR commissioner Charmaine Houvet.
Cisco’s Charmaine Houvet encourages government to hasten digital transformation policies into action.
SA deprived of better coverage and lower data prices
On 13 April, the Free Market Foundation presented its 2021 SEIA report that detailed the ways in which the South African government's ICT policy is potentially harming the consumer.
Dr Charley Lewis shortlists some of the key developments that are lying in wait down the 2020 road.
Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams shelves the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, noting Parliament is unlikely to finalise it before the upcoming general elections.
The portfolio committee on telecoms and postal services readies to hear oral presentations on the provisions contained in the ECA Bill.
Six years after the departure of the previous government CIO, Mandla Ngcobo is appointed to set the state's ICT benchmark.
The telecoms ministry confirms plans to establish government-owned IT and ICT infrastructure companies in the next two years.
The regulation authority and telecoms department mourn the loss of Libby Lloyd.
Siyabonga Cwele's continued stay as telecoms minister cements the importance of implementing government's ICT policy, amid the Cabinet shake-up.
The telecoms department explores legislative processes to implement the ICT policy outlined in the National Integrated ICT Policy White Paper.
ICASA's future remains fuzzy, as the ICT white paper recommends different entities to oversee regulation.