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2026-05 – Professor Benjamin Rosman leads South Africa’s AI policy panel | SA News

– Wits University

The Director of Wits University’s MIND Institute to head a panel of independent experts in AI research, law and governance.

Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Solly Malatsi appointed Professor Benjamin Rosman and an advisory panel of experts to assist in formulating South Africa’s national policy on artificial intelligence (AI).

This comes after Malatsi withdrew the draft National AI Policy following a News24 report that several academic journals cited in the document were ‘fictitious’. Malatsi said a new draft policy needs to be based on the ‘best available evidence and align with South Africa’s priorities’.

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