Naspers says South Africa must build AI governance capability to attract investment
Reuters2026/08/03 06:35- Naspers signaled South Africa should treat AI governance as an implementation capability, not a legislative exercise, to attract capital, talent, compute.
- It backed the government’s use of an independent expert panel to review an AI policy framework before drafting, citing stronger regulatory certainty.
- Naspers warned investment could shift to jurisdictions with clearer, workable, predictably enforced AI rules, raising competitiveness stakes for South Africa.
- It urged closer regulator-industry engagement to avoid unworkable rules that could constrain innovation across deployments and workflows.
- Group General Counsel David Tudor framed AI policy as part of an inclusive economic strategy, calling for urgency as AI development accelerates.
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