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Part 4: Why Online? – Changes in South Africa’s online population in 2008

As we approach the end of our “Why Online” series, we look at an updated article from Nielsen/Netratings last week.
We know that roughly 13% of South Africans are online, a total of 5.1 million people – but if you break that number down, some interesting observations can be made.
Take a look at this graph from [...]

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Part 1: Why Online? -Basic South African Internet Statistics

The South African online population is typically behind other first world countries such as the United States, or the United Kingdom in terms of internet usage. This is due to a number of factors including legislation, high pricing structures and education amongst others.
That said, the population of users who are online in South Africa has [...]

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