Winston the homing pigeon draws tweets of support

It's an absolute disgrace that South Africa has such an abysmal telecommunications system. There is no excuse for it and it is difficult to understand why there is STILL no change in this pathetic situation.

Who is responsible for this absurdity? How are South Africans expected to compete in the international arena when we cannot even access a decent Internet Service?

Year after year we hear rumours that there is going to be competition or that things are going to improve but to date we remain one of the most expensive and pathetic services in the world!!!

Very good timing, this little experiment! Our ADSL at home has been very, very slow just these last few days. Techy guy on the phone did some tests and told my wife we have a bottleneck- well we kinda noticed that ourselves which is why we phoned. Maybe the study chair was sitting on the cable?

Now, if these bird guys can only start to train hadedas or something that size.....

This bird story is bull and only good for the Daily Voice. Let me tell you a good one. I was listening as voices came from outside my window. It was early on a Saturday morning when the wife was off to do shopping and I know that the two dogs was alone in the yard. I was peering through the netting I saw the two dogs in deep conversation with one another. And you know what they were talking about. Pieter de Villiers. The one dog was telling the other dog. Why cannot they figure out that he is not human. He talks funny and nobody notice that he is an alien. He just watch the game like that one inside. Atleast we scratch our balls when we've got nothing to say. But he opens his mouth and every one want to know where the drivel is coming from. But first go give 5 barks so that one inside knows that there is dogs outside.

Does this mean fast internet access in South Africa has gone to the birds...?

Not at all ... just that a courier pigeon in hand is worth two Telkoms in the bush ...

Why are we so far behind ? It's really fairly simple to work out. As we all know, A large chunk of Telkom is owned by state, so to put it another way, tortoise-speed internet is another form of indirect taxation.

More worrying is the fact that many governments are wary of the www as it spreads information across the planet in a flash. This freedom of access is disturbing for politicians.

Now add the two together and you have the answer.

Nothing will change.