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We are the Cortex Hub, an Eastern Cape based tech hub growing entrepreneurs through incubation and acceleration, and activating enterprise and supplier development to build a thriving Africa technology ecosystem.

FREE STATE — Innovate. Collaborate. Create solutions. 🚀The MICT SETA National Skills Competition is heading to the Free ...
16/10/2026

FREE STATE — Innovate. Collaborate. Create solutions. 🚀

The MICT SETA National Skills Competition is heading to the Free State on 29–30 October 2026!

From strengthening agricultural practices and exploring smarter mining solutions to developing technology that supports local communities, the focus is on encouraging young people to think creatively, collaborate and explore new possibilities through innovation.

This is an opportunity for aspiring innovators and problem-solvers to explore how digital skills can be transformed into practical solutions that respond to the needs of local communities and key economic sectors.

Ready to be part of the innovation? Start preparing your ideas, gather your enthusiasm and watch this space for registration details and information on how to participate. Your next big idea could help shape the future of the Free State!

Stay connected, spread the word and be ready to register when applications open. Don’t miss out!

FreeState Agriculture Mining DigitalSkills YouthDevelopment TVETColleges

Day 1 of the AI and Robotics Youth Training Programme: Training of Trainers Workshop was a full day of learning and buil...
28/09/2026

Day 1 of the AI and Robotics Youth Training Programme: Training of Trainers Workshop was a full day of learning and building. Teachers started by building robot prototypes from the chassis up and working through power management, motor control and wireless operation. Swipe through for highlights from the day.

Tomorrow, teams will present their working robots, connect with the Giga AI Club team and receive their certificates.

When teachers are equipped, entire classrooms benefit, and these educators will carry their new skills back to the learners in their schools, building a generation ready for the digital future.

ITU | AI for Good | UNICEF | Giga | Google | The Cortex Hub | Department of Communications and Digital Technologies | Department of basic education

Today in Pretoria - South Africa, teachers are getting hands on with robotics and artificial intelligence at the AI and ...
28/09/2026

Today in Pretoria - South Africa, teachers are getting hands on with robotics and artificial intelligence at the AI and Robotics Youth Training Programme: Training of Trainers Workshop, taking place from 28 to 29 September 2026.

Participants are building robot prototypes from the chassis up, working through power management, motor control and wireless operation, and training image classification models with Google Teachable Machine to bring computer vision onto the robots themselves.

This workshop forms part of an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) initiative under the AI for Good banner. The AI and Robotics Youth Training Programme is the companion to ITU’s Robotics for Good Youth Challenge, a global educational robotics competition launched in 2024 to widen access to AI and robotics education and close the digital skills gap among young people.

The challenge now reaches over 18,000 participants in around 50 countries, and the training programme equips teachers to bring this learning into their classrooms, with a goal of reaching 20,000 African students across five pilot countries.

The Cortex Hub is proud to co-organise this workshop with ITU, IHFC (TIH of IIT Delhi) ), the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies and the Department of Basic Education, in partnership with Google and Giga.

Department of Communications and Digital Technologies Department of basic education

11/09/2026

WHO GETS REMEMBERED?

What happens when the history of a sport is told from the sidelines, while the people who helped build it are left out of the record?

On 1 October 2026, Umbhoxo Wethu comes to East London for a special screening and conversation bringing together sport, history and documentary filmmaking.

Through the stories of Black rugby players in the Eastern Cape, Umbhoxo Wethu looks beyond the familiar narrative of South African rugby to explore bigger questions of memory, belonging and who gets remembered in the making of a nation.

This is more than a film about rugby. It is an opportunity to revisit the histories we inherited, the histories that were overlooked or erased, and the stories that are still waiting to be told.

🎬 UMBHOXO WETHU
📍 Eastern Cape Film Hub, East London C*D
📅 1 October 2026
🕐 12:00
🎟️ RSVP: https://lnkd.in/ddAJdHgc (space is limited)

Produced by Anno Domini Magazine
Supported by the Goethe-Institut GPS Programme in association with the Eastern Cape Film Hub.

Join us for the screening and conversation as we revisit the people, places and stories that shaped Eastern Cape rugby.

Team Ctrl + V - 1st Prize Congratulations to Phemelo Mashome, Luyanda Sekwane, Kwanele Ngcamu, and Karabo Mokgotloa, tak...
30/08/2026

Team Ctrl + V - 1st Prize

Congratulations to Phemelo Mashome, Luyanda Sekwane, Kwanele Ngcamu, and Karabo Mokgotloa, taking 1st place at the MICT SETA National Skills Challenge Hackathon in the Mining and Renewable Energy track!

This team built an IoT powered mining safety solution, tackling one of the most critical challenges facing the industry. In a region that is home to more than 77% of the world’s known on land manganese resources, mining safety isn’t a side issue, it’s central to protecting the people who power one of the most significant mining regions on the planet. Their solution uses real time, connected monitoring to help detect risk before it becomes harm, showing how technology can directly protect lives on the ground.

From problem statement to prototype to pitch, this team combined strong technical ex*****on with a clear understanding of what matters most in mining: the people doing the work.

Congratulations to our 1st place winners! 👏🏆

MiningSafety IoT

Team Dust 2 Data - 2nd Prize 🏆

Congratulations to Patrick Mamela Abbi, Lwanele Nkosi, Nengome Mpfariseni, and Mehluli Ryan Shabangu, taking 2nd place at the MICT SETA National Skills Challenge Hackathon in the Mining and Renewable Energy track!

Going a step further than a mockup, this team brought their solution to life as a fully working prototype, focused on solar panel maintenance, proving their concept could actually function in the real world, not just on paper. By tackling upkeep and performance monitoring, they addressed one of the most overlooked barriers to solar reliability in remote areas. From problem statement to prototype to pitch, they demonstrated sharp technical thinking paired with a genuine understanding of the communities they’re building for.

Congratulations to team Dust 2 Data! 👏

SolarEnergy IoT

Team MadTechNC - 3rd Prize 🏆

congratulations to Gladwin Reabaka Legobane, Nomusa Geco, Sipho Gumbo, and Millecent Tlhageng, taking 3rd place at the MICT SETA National Skills Challenge Hackathon in the Mining and Rene

29/08/2026

Pitching is LIVE at the MICT SETA National Skills Challenge Hackathon! Teams are on stage, solutions on show

MICT SETA The Cortex Hub mLab Sol Plaatje University

The moment teams have been building toward 🚀 participants are now on stage pitching their solutions, from Mining and Ren...
29/08/2026

The moment teams have been building toward 🚀 participants are now on stage pitching their solutions,
from Mining and Renewable Energy to Agriculture and Agro Processing, FinTech, and Transport, Trade and Fisheries, each team is making the case for how their AI and IoT solution solves a real problem for rural communities in the Northern Cape.

Insight, prototype, and now the pitch. Watch this space for the results at the MICT SETA National Skills Challenge Hackathon.

Sol Plaatje University mLab

Why IoT Matters Here?At Day 2 of the MICT SETA National Skills Challenge Hackathon, IoT isn’t just a buzzword on the t...
29/08/2026

Why IoT Matters Here?

At Day 2 of the MICT SETA National Skills Challenge Hackathon, IoT isn’t just a buzzword on the track list, it’s one of the most practical tools for solving rural landscape challenges.

In a region like the Northern Cape, where distances are vast and infrastructure is often limited, IoT means real time data from remote places that used to run blind: soil sensors that tell farmers exactly when to irrigate, monitoring devices that flag equipment faults on a mine before they become costly failures, trackers that follow goods and vehicles across long trade routes with no reliable connectivity in between.

That’s the shift teams are mocking up right now. Not IoT for its own sake, but IoT as the eyes and ears of communities that have historically had to make decisions with far less information than they deserved.

Sol Plaatje University mLab

28/08/2026

Problem statements locked in!

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