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Good practice Evidence: Observational / pre–post Top 1% 87/100 Compare

E.A.R.S. — AI-Powered WhatsApp Teacher Training for Early Hearing-Loss Detection in South African Schools

University of Pretoria and the hearX Foundation's free AI WhatsApp chatbot trains teachers to spot childhood hearing loss; 12,000+ South African educators …

Pretoria, South Africa

Good practice Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 8% 73/100 Compare

DHET–Google AI and Digital Skills Scholarships — 10,000 Career Certificates for South African Students and Educators

South Africa's higher-education department and Google signed a two-year deal for 10,000 AI, cybersecurity and data-analytics Career Certificate scholarships across universities, TVET …

Johannesburg, South Africa

Good practice Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 16% 67/100 Compare

South African Universities Switch Off Turnitin's AI Detector Over Bias and False-Positive Risks

Facing evidence that AI-text detectors misclassify non-native English writing, South Africa's UCT, Stellenbosch, UFS and Wits disabled Turnitin's AI detector in 2025-26, …

Cape Town, South Africa

Good practice Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 27% 60/100 Compare

UCT Scraps Turnitin's AI-Detection Score — A South African University Bets on Assessment Redesign Over Surveillance

In June 2025 the University of Cape Town's Senate endorsed an AI in Education Framework, and from 1 October 2025 UCT discontinued …

Cape Town, South Africa

Good practice Evidence: Quasi-experimental Top 27% 60/100 Compare

Siyavula — AI-adaptive maths and science practice for South African high schools

South African platform for 2M+ secondary students with free government-distributed maths/science textbooks and AI-adaptive practice. Dell Foundation: 17,000 Gauteng pupils. JumpStart quasi-experiment …

Cape Town, South Africa

Good practice Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 42% 53/100 Compare

MoUJi — University of Johannesburg's Multilingual AI Chatbot for Admissions, Registration and Financial Aid

The University of Johannesburg upgraded its MoUJi chatbot with LLM technology so students can check admission scores, register and get financial-aid help …

Johannesburg, South Africa

Good practice Evidence: Observational / pre–post Top 42% 53/100 Compare

AI Speech-Recognition Assessment of Oral Reading Fluency in isiXhosa

A University of Cape Town-led team fine-tuned open-source speech-recognition models to automatically score early-grade oral reading fluency in isiXhosa, using 14,971 recordings …

Cape Town, South Africa

Good practice Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 42% 53/100 Compare

AGCCI TVET Coding and Robotics Boot Camp — AI Skills for Young Women at Motheo TVET College, Bloemfontein

A 10-day AGCCI bootcamp at Motheo TVET College, Bloemfontein (29 June-9 July 2026) trained 40 young women from Motheo TVET and Free …

Bloemfontein, South Africa

Good practice Evidence: Observational / pre–post Top 58% 47/100 Compare

Wysa — AI Mental-Health Chatbot Woven into Student Support Services at the University of the Western Cape

A case study evaluated the Wysa wellbeing chatbot, adopted by 4,871 users (18.73% adoption rate) at the University of the Western Cape …

Bellville, South Africa

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Good practice Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 72% 40/100 Compare

GPT-4-Powered Formative Feedback for Large Accounting Classes

Pretoria accounting lecturers built a GPT-4 web tool giving essay-question feedback engineered around Nicol & Macfarlane-Dick's principles. A study of 75 scripts …

Pretoria, South Africa

Good practice Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 82% 33/100 Compare

FoondaMate — WhatsApp-Based AI Study Assistant Reaches 400,000+ Students Across 30+ Countries, Cape Town

Two Cape Town graduates built FoondaMate, a free WhatsApp/Messenger study chatbot for students with limited or costly internet. By mid-2022 it reached …

Cape Town, South Africa