A South African family checking a banking app together at home
A Sourceworx programme · October 2026

Cyber Savvy SA

Small habits, safer phones and stronger homes, in a free and practical programme of around fifteen minutes a week that you complete on your own phone.

About the programme

We help families, teens and small teams recognise the scams that cost South Africans the most, and build the everyday habits that stop them.

A team reviewing a suspicious email together

R2.4bn

lost to digital banking crime in South Africa, per SABRIC

70%+

of those losses came through banking apps and social engineering

20 min

a week, on your own phone, for four weeks

Doctor Ngobeni

Most online harm in South African homes begins with a single convincing message or a frightening chat that nobody felt able to talk about, and a few calm habits learnt together as a family are often all it takes to stop that harm before it starts.

Doctor Ngobeni

Information Security Manager, Sourceworx

Learning paths

Choose your path

Three separate environments, each with its own content and its own consent flow.

Adults

Personal and small business use

Banking scams, WhatsApp hijacking, fake invoices and voice clones, followed by three advanced weeks on AI, POPIA and privacy and hardening your devices, including a real deepfake test.

7 sections · ~95 min Certificate
Enter the adult path
Teens, 13 to 17

Group chats, scams and AI fakes

Cyberbullying and what actually helps, your digital footprint, the scams aimed at your age group, spotting AI fakes and locking down your accounts, all through real scenarios.

5 sections · ~75 min Certificate
Enter the teen path
Kids, 8 to 12

Done together with a grown-up

Secret or share, the friendly stranger in the game, silly-sentence passwords and is it real, with drag-and-drop games, short videos and a printable certificate at the end.

4 sections · ~30 min Parent-led
Enter the kids path

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Cyber Savvy SA is an awareness programme by Sourceworx. Sourceworx is the responsible party under POPIA. Programme data is deleted on 31 January 2027.

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