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Teach your team to think with AI — not just use it.

SDL-eligible AI literacy for South African professionals. Six modules, built on real local cases, that build the judgment to use any AI tool safely and accountably. The certificate says demonstrated, not completed.

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6 modules · 18 assessable competencies · SDL-eligible · live facilitated cohorts

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How we train your team to think with AI — safely and accountably.

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How we train your team to think with AI — safely and accountably.

6core modules
18assessable competencies
SDLeligible funding
Livefacilitated cohorts
The Problem

AI is already in South African workplaces.
The judgment skills aren’t.

Your people know how to use the tools. Knowing when to question them is a different skill — and it’s the one that protects your business.

1.4M
South Africans trained on AI tool use — not on when to question AI output (Microsoft SA, 2026)
37%
gender penalty found in a 2025 audit of African fintech credit algorithms — often invisible to the decision-maker
Apr 2026
SA withdrew its national AI policy after AI-fabricated citations were found — a judgment failure, not a tools failure
What your team learns

Not how to use AI tools. How to think with them.

Three things no other SA AI training delivers together.

Critical judgment, not tutorials
Learners leave knowing when to trust AI output, when to verify it, and who is accountable when it’s wrong — not just which buttons to press.
Real SA cases, not imported examples
Every module is built around documented South African AI incidents — the policy hallucination, the fintech gender penalty, the 2024 election deepfakes.
A certificate that means something
No quiz at the end. Learners submit a real evaluation of an AI system from their own job. The certificate says demonstrated, not completed.
The core framework Funda Five™ — an AfriversalAI framework

The Funda Five™

One framework every learner can apply to any AI encounter at work — in two minutes, without technical knowledge.

1
Task
Is this the right kind of job for AI?
2
Data
Is any of this sensitive or POPIA-protected?
3
Tool
Is this AI type right for the task?
4
Trust
How would I detect an error in this output?
5
Human
Who is accountable for the final decision?

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Sector-aware learning

Whatever your profession, your sector is part of the course.

Judgment that applies anywhere — but Module 7 is built entirely around the AI risks, tools and decisions that define your line of work.

🏢 Corporate & Business 🏛️ Government & Public Sector 💰 Finance & Banking 🏥 Healthcare 🎓 Education
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