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ADSL on its last legs in South Africa

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  By   Daniel Puchert Partially state-owned telecommunications company Telkom announced in its financial results for the year ending 31 March 2025 that its ADSL subscribers had more than halved to under 30,000. According to the company’s operational data, ADSL lines decreased from 64,959 in March 2024 to 29,770. This 54.2% decline highlights that the legacy broadband technology is slowly approaching the end of the road. Telkom’s ADSL business peaked at the end of March 2016 with 1.01 million subscribers — two years after fibre upstart Vumatel  broke ground in Parkhurst . What followed was a sharp decline in Telkom ADSL subscribers. Customers connected to its copper networks decreased by more than 500,000 over the next four years. This was partly driven by Telkom itself, which began actively switching off its copper network in some neighbourhoods. If it did not have fibre in the area, it would offer a “fixed line lookalike” wireless service that ran over its cellular ...

Baby among 3 dead in Pretoria crash

Johannesburg - A baby was among three people killed when a taxi overturned on the Mabopane highway on Saturday, Tshwane Metro police said. "The left tyre of a taxi burst. The driver lost control and the vehicle overturned," said Tshwane Metro police spokesperson Louise Brits. She said that the baby - which appeared to have been about 6-months-old - was killed, along with a man and a woman. One person was airlifted to hospital. Five other people were being treated for serious injuries. Three people sustained minor injuries. - SAPA Read more on:    pretoria  |  accidents

Terrible accedent

Hours before New Year l witness a horrific accedent a texi / kombi fully loaded with people from Soshanguve burst the rear tyre, flue into the air out of the road and crashed upside down on middle tarmarck road. When l stoped on the side of the road with other pple to go and see people were scatered all over the ground. Its so unfortunate that we confirmed 3 dead on the sport 2 brothers ,1 beautiful sister crashed head first into the road. 1 small infant, thrown on the tar was just flat no breath. 1 brother had a rock deep in his head on the brains, bleeding from ears, mouth and cracks in the head. He might not make it also. Another dread man had his dread locks rooted off the head on impact in the tar. He was shrugging and or rolling all over ontop of the dead sister and back on ground. We need God's prayers that he may make it too. 4 sisters, 1 child and 3 brothers were crying and confused but badly injured. They needed quick help to be taken to hospital but with accedences you n...

The BEE in South Africa

This is an interesting story about BEE in South Africa. BEE is a move which was introduced by the government   to bring the business to a balance, whereby both blacks and whites benefit from the Government tenders.   The blacks believed that it was benefiting the whites since apartheid era.   Blacks are registering their own companies bid for the tenders and are given the business to do the projects. A classic one happened in one of the government departments.    The department in one of the provinces in S Africa.   The director of education and his son were working together to award tenders to the local people. Their strategy was to award small money tenders to the people and the   big ones they have to make plans and award to themselves. This would seem to all people   in local city to fell that all is being done fairly. In so doing they have to create a company which will be in someone’s name   and use that person to do all the business ...

Joke of the day

German scientists dug 50 meters down in the underground and discovered small pieces of copper. After studying these pieces for a long time, Germany announced that the ancient Germans 25,000 years ago had a nation-wide telephone network. The Russian government was not that easily impressed. They ordered their own scientists to dig even deeper. 100 meters down they found small pieces o ... f glass. They soon announced that 35,000 years ago, the ancient Russians already had a nationwide fibre net. American scientists were outraged. They dug 200 meters down in the underground, but found absolutely nothing. They happily concluded that the ancient Americans 55,000 years ago had cellular telephones.

Zimbabwe poised to be world's third largest diamond producer

English.news.cn   2011-12-25 07:48:34 HARARE, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Zimbabwe is poised to become the world's third largest diamond producer by the end of this decade as production continues to soar, state media New Ziana reported on Saturday. The country which is currently the seventh largest producer in the world has potential to supply 25 percent of global demand. Currently the country has got four diamond mining firms operating in the Chiadzwa fields namely Marange Resources, Mbada Diamonds, Anjin and Diamond Mining Corporation. The Kimberly Process Certification System recently rated Anjin was recently certified as the biggest diamond mining firm in the world. Western countries led by the United States have been battling to block Zimbabwe from selling its diamonds in order to sustain effects of illegal economic sanctions that they imposed on the country in retribution for expropriating land from former white commercial farmers. The country stands to ear...

A Country in Danger of war again.

DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo opposition leader, Etienne Tshisekedi -- besieged in his Kinshasa home by heavily armed security forces -- swore a makeshift presidential oath on Friday as police battled in the streets outside with his rock-throwing supporters. President Joseph Kabila was officially inaugurated on December 20 to a new term as head of the vast central African state, after winning a disputed November 28 election that Tshisekedi derided as fraudulent. Kabila's inauguration earlier this week was held at a heavily guarded compound near the banks of the Congo River, and was attended by only one foreign head of state, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe. Mugabe warned that the region would resist any attempts to undermine Kabila's regime. "We are one with them (Congolese) as they cele­brate the victory and his party and having won, and won thunderously against Tshisekedi. He has won a democratic election,” the Zimbabwean leader said. "This must send a cl...

Khupe loses breast in cancer fight

DEPUTY Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe has revealed she now has one breast after undergoing chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer in South Africa last week. Speaking during a donation of medical equipment worth US$3,5 million by Department for International Development (DFID) UK in Bulawayo Wednesday, Khupe said the operation had been successful. “I now have one breast and I am not even shy and worried about it, I went through a very successful cancer chemotherapy operation in South Africa and you people when you see me you think I have two normal breasts but that’s not it,” Khupe said in an interview with Radio VOP. “I thank you all for your prayers, I am still very strong and God will always guide me.” Khupe. She said Zimbabweans diagnosed with cancer should not give up as the diseases can be treated. In June this year, the 48-year-old mum-of-three declared made public her battle with the disease which kills half a million women worldwide every year and accounts for 14 per...

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