And gee, hasn’t South Africa come a long way since apartheid fell and the country was declared open to
They have great corporate governance too, as you can see. And such accountable corporate people!Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery – but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon.A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country’s biggest web firm, Telkom.Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles – in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data.Telkom said it was not responsible for the firm’s slow internet speeds.