{"id":46775,"date":"2026-09-29T11:42:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T09:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=46775"},"modified":"2026-09-29T11:42:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T09:42:03","slug":"african-countries-must-establish-robust-safety-barriers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/african-countries-must-establish-robust-safety-barriers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;African countries must establish robust safety barriers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">South African Reserve Bank Governor (SARB) Lesetja Kganyago says African nations must urgently establish robust guardrails amid concerns that the next global financial crash could be sparked by a major cyberattack.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">He delivered a keynote address at the 3rd Mapunguwe Institute for Strategic Reflection Forum on Africa and geopolitics.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Kganyago says if not tackled adequately, this will lead to unprecedented economic disruptions and supply shocks.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">He says, \u201cJust a few days ago, we learned that an open AI system had hacked into an Australian government website, perhaps the first known incident of an AI autonomous infiltrating a sovereign facility, but the risks in my domain are undoubtedly severe, ranging from cyber security to asset price bubbles\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Kganyago adds, \u201cImagine a swarm of super-smart and tireless agents hacking into SA\u2019s payment system or a big financial firm. This is why experts think the next financial crisis may well come from a cyberattack.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36067,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-46775","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Kganyago says if not tackled adequately, this will lead to unprecedented economic disruptions and supply shocks.","published_date":"","news_description":"Kganyago says if not tackled adequately, this will lead to unprecedented economic disruptions and supply shocks.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46775","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\/46775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46776,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46775\/revisions\/46776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=46775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}