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The political commentry remains, very odd. Perhaps mention of the early networks that preceeded the SA internet would be valuable. Also the move to commercial use of the internet was held back for quite a while and hobby users had access via UUCP and USENET gateways before the co.za domains came
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The stats quoted are now rather old. According to The New Wave report (2012) based on research conducted by
Research ICT Africa and the South African Network Society project at University of Witwatersrand, 34% (12.3m) South African adults (age 15 and over) use the Internet. This is based on a
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Internet access from home in 2012, while the ITU reports 57.7% in 2011.
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I struggle to see why the political references are relevant. I think it suggests amateur authors or blatant advertising. I expected a more technical article as the comment above suggests.
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I have added a bit of balance to the political commentry but I still think none of it is relevant to the page and should all be removed.
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