12 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: South Africa (81)
South Africa's ECD subsidy reaches 1.5 million children (2022, up from ~700k in 2019) via centres staffed over 90% by women. A …
A national network of 16 university-hosted Technology Stations transfers applied engineering know-how to SMEs; one station alone serves 125+ SMMEs and 500+ …
A WhatsApp-based platform connecting up to 13 million South Africans to grants, COVID-19 testing and municipal services became a landmark antitrust case …
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, …
South Africa's Home Affairs upgraded its facial-recognition ID verification system used by SASSA, Treasury and banks, cutting failure rates from up to …
Sonke Gender Justice's One Man Can campaign mobilises South African men and boys through workshops and community action against gender-based violence. A …
JICA and South Africa's AIDC gave eight auto-parts suppliers years of on-site Kaizen coaching. By 2018, labour productivity had more than doubled, …
Since 1982, Durban's eThekwini Municipality has protected a statutory open-space network now covering roughly 940 km2 of the city; a 2017 World …
In June 2025 the University of Cape Town's Senate endorsed an AI in Education Framework, and from 1 October 2025 UCT discontinued …
Since 2003, Eskom has partnered with BirdLife South Africa and the Middelpunt Wetland Trust to protect the wetlands feeding its Ingula Pumped-Storage …
SARB researchers rigorously tested machine-learning models (LASSO, XGBoost, neural networks) against the bank's own published inflation forecasts: ML modestly beat SARB's forecast …
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 …
South Africa's amended Employment Equity Act now requires 50+-staff employers to file an annual Income Differential Statement (EEA4) with the National Minimum …
Launched 2016 by Wits University in Johannesburg's Braamfontein, Tshimologong pairs a startup incubator with a digital-skills academy. Its JPMorgan-backed programme has incubated …
UCT's technology-transfer office has spun out 40 companies over 20 years, built spin-off equity worth R100M+ and now manages 2,500 research contracts …
A Johannesburg startup built Vulavula, a speech-to-text and text-analysis tool for isiZulu, Sesotho and Afrikaans, so telecom and bank call centres can …
eThekwini Municipality uses a satellite machine-learning system to flag suspected drinking-water leaks across Durban's network, tracking over 1,000 leaks. Despite the tool, …
Facing what officials call an AI-disinformation risk before South Africa's 4 November 2026 local elections, the IEC launched Vota, a multichannel AI …
The University of Johannesburg upgraded its MoUJi chatbot with LLM technology so students can check admission scores, register and get financial-aid help …
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 …
A 10-day AGCCI bootcamp at Motheo TVET College, Bloemfontein (29 June-9 July 2026) trained 40 young women from Motheo TVET and Free …
Since 2018 the Greater Cape Town Water Fund has cleared 46,000+ hectares of invasive alien vegetation, recovering 15.2 billion litres of water …
National voluntary programme where private and communal landowners receive rates exemptions and technical support in exchange for conservation commitments; has secured >1.5 …
City of Cape Town and TNC fund invasive alien tree clearance since 2018. By Oct 2023: 46,000+ ha cleared across 7 mountain …
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