Although South Africa’s 5G coverage has continued to grow in 2025, the country’s two largest cellular providers have slowed down their rollouts substantially compared to last year.
South Africa’s biggest mobile network, Vodacom, was the first to launch mobile 5G services in May 2020. Its inital rollout was slow due to the unavailability of spectrum and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Vodacom picked up the pace in subsequent years and reached 30% population coverage…
KwaZulu-Natal Media: The Mercury and Sunday Tribune are significant
newspapers in KwaZulu-Natal, focusing on local and national news.

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Fun South African Fact: The Karoo region in the Western Cape is home to some of the best fossils of early dinosaurs. In fact, it is estimated that some 80% of the mammalian fossils found to date were found in the Karoo.
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Fun South African Fact: The swimming pool vacuum cleaner is a South African invention.