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 ...

LET'S HELP OUR ZIM NEIGHBOURS

 

Manwell would like to send basic foods in bulk to Manya, so she can package them into food parcels in Zimbabwe. It is cost effective to buy flour and other basic items in bulk. Call Manwell (063 885 5141) if you are able to help.

Journalist Linda Sparg | Sunday, 14 February 2021, 08:01
Let's help our Zim neighbours
These children must pay an adult to help them cross this flowing river to go to school in Zimbabwe.

MOSSEL BAY NEWS - After the Mossel Bay Advertiser published an article last week about a Zimbabwe woman looking for a pasta-making machine, a Stilbaai woman called her, offering help.

Nasper Manya, in Zimbabwe, wants to start a pasta business to provide employment and help raise money for hungry, disabled people in Zimbabwe.

The Stilbaai business woman, who herself has a pasta-making business, offered Manya a hand roller. She did not have a machine to spare.

Manya is extremely grateful for the help, nonetheless.

Many are going hungry in Zimbabwe. Disabled people have it hard. Very few have wheelchairs. Many people who do not have legs have to shuffle along on the ground because wheelchairs are so hard to come by.

Diapers for the disabled, sanitary pads, food and clothes are badly needed.

Nasper Manya assists the hungry and disabled in Zimbabwe.

Mossel Bay couple Manwell and Tina Mpofu, who come from Zimbabwe, are in contact with Manya constantly. The Mpofus are highly respected in the Zimbabwean community in Mossel Bay.

Manwell has contact with a transport business owner who regularly takes items to Zimbabwe on trucks.

If you have clothes to send to Zimbabwe, they will be most welcome. Manwell says: "It does not matter if they are old and have a hole or two. Zimbabweans have nothing and are grateful for anything they can get."

Manwell would like to send basic foods in bulk to Manya, so she can package them into food parcels in Zimbabwe. It is cost effective to buy flour and other basic items in bulk. Call Manwell (063 885 5141) if you are able to help.

You can also contact Manya (071 697 4706 or 077 675 8822) via WhatsApp, email her (nasper002@gmail.com) or connect with her on Facebook (Nasper Manya).

These holey, thatched structures are a primary school in Mwenezi, Masvingo, in Zimbabwe.

Roads in Zimbabwe are in disrepair.

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