Good for these guys!
Cape takes Telkom protest to the streets
Are you fed up with poor service from Telkom? If you are then you're not alone. This time, however, Telkom let down a Cape Town-based non-profit organisation and now Ikamva Youth is planning to fight back with a protest march through the streets of Cape Town. Ikamva Youth is a non-profit organisation focused on the empowerment of youth through education, e-literacy, training and career guidance. The organisation works mostly in Makhaza, Khayelitsha in the Cape Town area and have installed a tuXlab computer lab at the Nazeema Isaacs library in Makhaze. In May 2007 Ikamva Youth ordered a DSL line from Telkom for the centre and paid a deposit. Telkom informed them that the DSL line would be installed the following month. This, however, didn't happen.UPDATE: Six months for Telkom, 3 days for WISP
Last week Amobia was contacted by Ikamva Youth, a group that was planning a Toyi Toyi to protest Telkom’s delay in connecting their library’s computer lab in Khayelitsha. They had been trying to get an ADSL line since March and had even paid their deposit in May this year. Telkom then provided June as the deadline for the installation, but later came back and informed the group that they could not install as there was no infrastructure in the area.For more there is the blog of the founder of Amobia.
