Huawei has launched a Partner Joint Industry Solution with four of South Africa’s largest IT services companies — CoCre8 Technology Solutions, Gijima, Altron and BCX — at Huawei South Africa Connect 2026 in Sandton, formalising a partner-ecosystem play the Chinese ICT vendor plans to extend as its template for African expansion. Huawei said its local partner ecosystem now includes more than 1,400 South African companies, and accounts for 94.7% of its local revenue and more than 90% of delivery and service work. The partnership approach, Xia said, has been delivering solutions across industries in South Africa, and the four projects unveiled at the event are the visible operating layer of that argument. Will Meng, chief executive of Huawei South Africa, tied the announcement to South Africa’s positioning at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, where the country joined the newly established World AI Cooperation Organisation as a founding member in July. In July 2025 at the previous Huawei South Africa Connect event, then-Huawei Enterprise CEO Gene Zhang reiterated the company’s commitment to training 50,000 ICT professionals in South Africa by 2028 as part of a broader ICT capacity build-out.