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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 ...
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Financial decisions you should make before 40

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Financial decisions you should make before 40 Posted  February 18, 2019 Consider these seven financial points as you approach 40, and make sure you’re on track to be fabulous. Forty is a fabulous milestone – and it comes by quicker than you would think! As the big four-oh approaches, one area you should take stock of is your finances. There are a few key things you should think about in the years leading up to this birthday, because how you deal with them could make or break your financial security for the rest of your life. Consider these seven points and make a plan for financial fitness at 40: 1. A retirement plan Although you should have been saving towards your retirement from your very first pay cheque (financial advisors recommend putting away 10% to 15% from day one), approaching 40 is a good time to get serious about a future that’s not quite so distant anymore. Work out how much you’ll need for your retirement and take...
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‘Parirenyatwa hospital nurses washing bandages to re-use on patients’

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Parirenyatwa Hospital. Things are falling apart ‘Parirenyatwa hospital nurses washing bandages to re-use on patients’  18th March 2019     Zimbabwe By Robert Tapfumaneyi NURSES at Zimbabwe’s foremost medical institution, Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, have resorted to washing bandages to dress burns on patients as health crisis at the institution deepens, plastic surgeon Doctor Faith Muchemwa revealed last week. According to Muchemwa, so dire is the situation that cross infections including, among medical staff has become common. “They (nurses) alternate days. They wash them (bandages), they hang them in the bathroom, they use these one today, tomorrow they take those ones which are now dry, they re-use them,” said Muchemwa.   Muchemwa said in the last two months, patients have been dying due to re-infections and lack of bandages which are made locally and can be acquired easily. “Emergency is always our mode, because I am in charg...
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Masvingo Council withdraws hospital land donation to government

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 . NEWS BUSINESS SPORT SHOWBIZ OPINION DIASPORA MORE Masvingo Council withdraws hospital land donation to government  12th March 2019     News Headlines By Tonderai Saharo Masvingo: Government plans to construct a state-of-the-art provincial hospital in Masvingo on a 19-hectare piece of land have hit a snag after the local authority here decided to award the same land to a private contractor for commercial purposes. The decision by council authorities comes as a huge blow to the health ministry which was in the process of securing $120 million from treasury to kick-start construction. The current provincial hospital has run out of expansion space. Masvingo provincial hospital, the only referral centre in the province, was built soon after independence to cater for 30 000 people but the population has ballooned to over two million. Calls have been made to relocate the hospital to a more spacious...
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Family distraught as body of SA woman who died in Bahamas won't come home 2019-03-12 18:59

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Kaveel Singh Nobuhle Bhengu. (Supplied) Multimedia    ·    User Galleries    ·    News in Pictures Send us your pictures   ·   Send us your stories Related Links Dirco, KZN govt working to have SA woman's remains returned from Bahamas – MEC SA family wants Bahamas to repatriate their daughter's body immediately 28 Haitians dead after ship sinks off Bahamas: officials The body of Nobuhle Bhengu, a former cruise ship employee who died in the Bahamas, will not be coming home and will be cremated instead, according to a family member. Bhengu's family is now crying foul play, saying that the Bahamanian government have been toying with them. "It's like they are trying to hide something," Mbali Bhengu, her aunt told News24 on Tuesday. Her niece was struck by a sudden illness, which is yet to be officially diagnosed. 'Contagious illness' The Bahamanian government say they...
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Mansa Musa: The richest man who ever lived

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By Naima Mohamud BBC Africa 8 hours ago Share this with Facebook   Share this with Messenger   Share this with Twitter   Share this with Email   Share Image copyright GETTY IMAGES Image caption Mansa Musa travelled to Mecca with a caravan of 60,000 men and 12,000 slaves Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world, according to the 2019 Forbes billionaires' list released this week. With an estimated fortunate of $131bn (£99bn) he is the wealthiest man in modern history. But he is by no means the richest man of all time. That title belongs to Mansa Musa, the 14th Century West African ruler who was so rich his generous handouts wrecked an entire country's economy. "Contemporary accounts of Musa's wealth are so breathless that it's almost impossible to get a sense of just how wealthy and powerful he truly was," Rudolph Butch Ware, associate professor of history at the University of California, told the BBC. M...
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If everyone on Earth sat in the ocean at once, how much would sea level rise?

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Andrew Watson: The 'most influential' black footballer for decades lost to history

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Which countries have the world’s largest coal reserves?

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