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Nelson Mandela Bay Audits The Curriculum
Africa is deploying manufacturing AI faster than it is training the people who will keep it running — a gap auditable from Port Elizabeth's automotive cluster to Nigeria's 3MTT programme. An audit of 55 Nelson Mandela Bay manufacturers found 80.4 per cent lacking digital foundations for technology-enabled roles. Meanwhile, continent-wide AI curricula offer no manufacturing, OT-security or plant-floor track. The industrial-AI workforce does not yet exist.
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