{"id":38569,"date":"2026-07-02T08:14:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T06:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38569"},"modified":"2026-07-02T08:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T06:14:24","slug":"sa-president-positions-country-as-digital-leader","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-president-positions-country-as-digital-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"SA President positions country as digital leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa has positioned SA as a future leader in Africa&#8217;s digital economy, saying cloud computing and artificial intelligence will drive the next wave of economic growth.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Speaking at the first ever Google Cloud Summit on the African continent, Ramaphosa welcomed new technology investments, describing it as a vote of confidence in SA&#8217;s economy that could boost jobs, innovation and the country&#8217;s global competitiveness.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">SA is betting on cloud computing and artificial intelligence to unlock its next phase of economic growth.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Addressing delegates at the Summit Ramaphosa said Africa must move beyond simply adopting technologies developed elsewhere and become a global hub for digital innovation.<\/div>\n<p>&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34272,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-38569","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Ramaphosa has positioned SA as a future leader in Africa's digital economy ","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38571,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38569\/revisions\/38571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}