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Phillip de Wet

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Aug 6, 2026
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Top 500K sites
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Jul 13, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 6, 2026 · Phillip de Wet

    OpEd: Govt IT failures need mandatory, public post-mortems (opens the original)

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    When the Land Bank first acknowledged trouble in January, it described a “temporary disruption” affecting certain internal IT systems. That was true, in the narrowest possible sense. Only later, through a parliamentary answer, did the public learn that ransomware operators had exploited a vulnerability in an internet-facing server. Sure, the Land Bank reported the incident to the police, the Information Regulator, the Prudential Authority and the State Security Agency. The authorities who needed

  2. Article · Jul 13, 2026 · Phillip de Wet

    OpEd: SA will be too slow to steer global AI regulation (opens the original)

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    By January 2027 – when the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies hopes to maybe start taking public comment on a national AI policy – a United Nations approach to AI will already be the subject of lobbying. At the beginning of last week, we got a solid indicator that the United Nations gets it: if you are dealing with AI, you can't move at pre-AI speed. Enterprises – heck, even small businesses – got it in 2025, and started to measure AI projects in weekly rather than quarterly i

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