--- title: South Africa’s AI policy collapse shows up in World Bank... description: South Africa has been excluded from the World Bank's World Development Report 2026 map of economies with a national AI strategy, following the withdrawal of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/south-africa-s-ai-policy-collapse-shows-up-in-world-bank-report-xbor7aydx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: South Africa’s AI policy collapse shows up in World Bank report | daily.dev og:description: South Africa has been excluded from the World Bank's World Development Report 2026 map of economies with a national AI strategy, following the withdrawal of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/south-africa-s-ai-policy-collapse-shows-up-in-world-bank-report-xbor7aydx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XBOR7AYdX.png og:image:alt: South Africa’s AI policy collapse shows up in World Bank report og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # South Africa’s AI policy collapse shows up in World Bank report **[TechCentral](https://daily.dev/sources/techcentral)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary South Africa has been excluded from the World Bank's World Development Report 2026 map of economies with a national AI strategy, following the withdrawal of its draft AI policy in April 2026. The policy was pulled after its reference list was found to contain fictitious citations, most likely generated by an AI tool without verification. An independent expert panel has been appointed to rebuild the document, but a published national AI policy is not expected before 2027 — nearly three years after the process began. The World Bank report also highlights South Africa's electricity grid constraints as a deterrent to large-scale AI investment. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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