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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The Blyde Estate in Pretoria is making residents & guests pay R250 to access lagoon

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By Kaya 959 Reporter

The Blyde Riverwalk Estate, an estate with a beach-like crystal clear lagoon in Pretoria is allegedly charging residents and guest R250 to access the lagoon.

A first of its kind in Southern Africa, this 1.5ha lagoon, complete with beach sand was created by Chilean company Crystal Lagoons, and is part of the development by Balwin Properties.

The Blyde Riverwalk Estate, Balwin Properties has defended its decision to charge more for lagoon access. Read their official statement HERE

Also Read: The Blyde Homeowners Association and Balwin defend its decision to charge more for lagoon access

Thandeka Ngwena, the short-term letting representatives at Blyde Estate, says home owners are in a bitter legal dispute with Balwin Properties, for what they say are unfair rules to force over 200 owners, who bought properties with the intention of renting them out for a short term basis.

In  statement released on Friday 17th September, they outlined all their grievances.

Nthato Raboshaga a Property Analyst was part of the speakers on a Sunday Twitter space, called The Blyde: People vs The Developer, gave insights on the issue that has caused residence so much frustration.

According to Raboshaga,  “The Blyde Estate has been alleged by owners who run Air BnB at the Blyde, that Balwin has changed the rules, when a guest comes, the owners must come & sign them in, Also, Balwin is building a Hotel to compete with the successful Air BnBs owners run.”

In the space, he added the hotel next to the Blyde is part of the problem:

“There is a hotel being developed by Balwin now at the Blyde. What that means is that as an owner, that developer who sold you the property is now building another property that is directly competing with you. For clients. And that’s very important, and it’s vital. Because it would mean that the people who were going there and now a portion of them.” [sic]

Tensions with disgruntled resisdents, the police and private security got heated into the evening on Saturday.

 

 

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