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30/08/2016

Media Release

TshWi-Fi reaches 2 million unique users



29 August 2016

Tshwane Free Wi-Fi - the biggest free public Wi-Fi network on the African continent - is celebrating the service’s biggest milestone to date: 2 million South Africans living and working in the low-income communities of Tshwane have been brought online in the Capital City.

The innovative Free Wi-Fi initiative, which began in 2013, has rolled out 921 Free Internet Zones across public areas in the City. The 2 million unique users have enjoyed more than 106 million online sessions, using more than 2289 TB of data. TshWi-Fi currently has more than 90 000 users accessing the service daily, with up to 10 000 concurrent users.

The innovative project, recently awarded as the Most Innovative Government Program to bridge the Digital Divide (World Wi-Fi Day Awards), has enabled more than two thirds of Tshwane’s population to access high-speed, reliable internet.

Earlier this year, TshWi-Fi increased its service to users, who are given 500MB of free internet data per day. Although only about 7% of users reach this cap, this unparalleled service means that citizens who would otherwise be paying high mobile rates, are able to access the internet free of charge, benefitting from the many resources and world of opportunity that being online enables.

Tshwane’s newly appointed executive mayor, Solly Msimanga is excited about this achievement and looks forward to seeing the extension of the TshWi-Fi network. “I applaud the officials of the City and our service providers who are working to bring more and more of our people online. We will work to expand the Wi-Fi network, the internet speed and connection quality under this new Tshwane government, and we will work to get more communities onto free Wi-Fi than ever before,” he said.

The City showcased its free Tshwi-Fi project at the Highway Africa Conference held in Grahamstown this past weekend. The conference was hosted by Rhodes University’s School of Journalism and Media Studies and was attended by journalism students and scholars as well as journalists from Africa. Tshwane participated in Local Government Day together with the South African Local Government Association and South African Cities Network.

Issued by the Communication, Marketing and Events Department.

14/12/2015

Tshwane Free Wifi wishes all Tshwane Residents a peaceful holiday season and a prosperous New Year.

30/11/2015

City of Tshwane receives the Kamoso Extended Public Works Programme Award

The City of Tshwane’s Project Vat Alles, a mayoral flagship project on city beautification through cleaning, job creation, community development and skills development has received the Kamoso Extended Public Works Programme (EPWP) Award for its youth job creation and greening projects on 26 November 2015 at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria.

Launched in 2012, Vat Alles strives to provide work opportunities to residents who are unemployed. The programme has created 30 280 new work opportunities in the 2013/14 financial year and targeted 40 000 work opportunities for the 2014/15 financial year.
The EPWP Kamoso Awards aim to encourage, motivate, recognise and reward national, provincial and local government, non-profit organisations and state-owned enterprises for excellent implementation of the EPWP.

The awards were launched in 2007 to recognise public bodies for their contribution to creating work opportunities. To date the programme has created 1,4 million work opportunities. Its target for 2019 is 6 million work opportunities.

The objectives of the EPWP Kamoso Awards are to:
• Acknowledge implementing bodies that have performed well in terms of the objectives of the EPWP Phase 3
• Mobilise government stakeholders and partners to increase their efforts around the implementation of the EPWP
• Communicate and showcase progress, impact and successes of the EPWP as a key government programme; and
• Increase the visibility of the EPWP and highlight its objectives among the broader public

24/11/2015

Do you love Free WiFi and connecting with your community? We are looking for Champions who are passionate about change and ready to connect communities in Tshwane to Free WiFi. Be a part of The Free Wifi Champion Program that will be running until February 2016 and get ready to connect with other like-minded go-getters. The Tshwane Free WiFi service (brought to you by The City of Tshwane, in partnership with Project Isizwe) has been growing exponentially and is the largest provider of free WiFi in South Africa. The Free Wifi Champions Program aims to leverage the power of young, motivated individuals to share, activate and educate WiFi users about this important service. Champions are passionate about change and ready to connect communities in Tshwane to Free WiFi, go to sites and activate WiFi use; while capturing data about the site and sharing users Free WiFi stories! Applications Close: Fri 18th Nov. If you need assistance email us at [email protected] or 0606209158

Organization Project Isizwe
When 28 Nov 2015
Time 09:00 - 14:00
How often Once Off
Skills needed Proactive, Tech savvy, Good Communication Skills
Volunteers Needed 50

24/11/2015

Tshwane is the first city in sub-Saharan Africa to operate a full Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) powered by Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) bus.

07/11/2015

Tshwane MMC for Sports and Recreation, Cllr Makeke at the Dlala Ntombazane Soccer Tournament in Eesterust. The City of Tshwane has been sponsoring the development of Female Soccer for the past 10 years.

04/11/2015

Pretoria showdown as MultiChoice Diski Challenge goes to Soshanguve

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Giant Stadium in Soshanguve will be the host of this weekend’s MultiChoice Diski Challenge as the long-awaited Pretoria showdown between University of Pretoria and Mamelodi Sundowns will take place.

The two teams last met in the MultiChoice Diski final when Tuks clinched the title of MultiChoice Diski Challenge champions against Mamelodi Sundowns and bagged themselves the 7-day winning trip to the Netherlands.

The Pretoria festival weekend will kick off at 10am on Saturday, 7 November with another Pretoria favourite, SuperSport United up against Platinum Stars and at 12pm Free State Stars will face Kaizer Chiefs. The long-awaited Pretoria showdown will kick off at 10am on Sunday, 8 November with University of Pretoria vs Mamelodi Sundowns and at 12pm Chippa United are set to face Orlando Pirates.

All matches will be live on SuperSport 4 (DStv channel 204) and SuperSport Select (DStv channel 210) and on community TV channels on DStv.

Entrance to the stadium will be free. Tickets can be collected from all Gauteng Computicket outlets and Shoprite/Checkers stores. Two (2) tickets will be allocated per person for each match day, on a first come first served basis. On collection, each person will be required to produce a valid South African ID.
For more information on the MDC tournament visit: www.supersport.com, www.psl.co.za, Facebook/Asidlali, Twitter or .

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Media queries can be directed to:
Lindi Magingxa
MultiChoice
076 246 8464
[email protected]

Fhatuwani Mpfuni
Premier Soccer League (PSL)
0760223144
[email protected]
FULL FIXTURE LIST:
Saturday, 7 November 2015
Home Away Venue Time Live Broadcast

SuperSport United vs Platinum Stars Giant Stadium 10h00 SS4 & SS Select
Free State Stars vs Kaizer Chiefs Giant Stadium 12h00 SS4 & SS Select

Sunday, 8 November 2015
Home Away Venue Time Live Broadcast

University of Pretoria vs Mamelodi Sundowns Giant Stadium 10h00 SS4 & SS Select
Chippa United vs Orlando Pirates Giant Stadium 12h00 SS4 & SS Select

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FACT SHEET ABOUT THE MULTICHOICE DISKI CHALLENGE

The MultiChoice Diski Challenge (MDC) is MultiChoice’s flagship corporate responsibility programme which consists of three core elements:
• A 16-team football development league competition in partnership with the Premier Soccer League (PSL) which will fast track the development of young players into the first teams of the PSL league
• Life skills and leadership development of the young football players
• An internship programme of 43 aspiring broadcasting professionals gaining practical experience in various areas of broadcasting with SuperSport.

The football competition
The MultiChoice Diski Challenge is a three-year partnership with the PSL with the focus on building the PSL’s Reserve League in order to fast track the clubs’ under 23 players into their first league teams.

The format of the football competition is a 16-team league, with each team playing every other team once. This means that a total of 120 matches will be played (16 teams will play 15 games each). The team with the most points – that is the team at the top of the log table, at the end of the tournament’s match day 15 will become the champions of MultiChoice Diski Challenge season 2.

Season 2 of the MultiChoice Diski tournament will kick off on Saturday, 5 September 2015 and wrap up in February 2016.

The winning team will win a trip to Holland for a 4-day training camp at the Royal Netherlands Football Association (KNVB).

Football player development
The league will provide a platform for young players to showcase their talent and fast track their transition into professional football.

Players will have an opportunity to interact with football legends and receive life and leadership skills training during the course of the programme. A seven-day life skills camp will be conducted for all the participating players across all 16 teams during the December 2015 period.

At the end of the competition in February 2016, MultiChoice will offer each team an opportunity to nominate three players to attend 7-day leadership development programme to build their leadership capacity.

MultiChoice will offer up to 30 players who have an interest in broadcast careers an opportunity to attend a one week career conference at the MultiChoice campus in Randburg. The conference will offer the players in-depth exposure to career paths in the broadcast environment and will include panel discussions with our executives, engineers, producers and technicians.

Sports broadcasting internships
The MultiChoice Diski Challenge gives upcoming production interns the chance to gain practical experience on and off the field in recording and producing live MultiChoice Diski Challenge matches for SuperSport. These young producers will also receive mentoring and coaching from experienced producers, engineers and other broadcasting professionals.

43 production interns, 17 of whom are female will form part of the production teams that consists of production assistants, assistant producers, directors, EVS operators, graphics, camera operators etc.

An 11 episode magazine show on the competition will also be produced by the interns. The show will be broadcast on SuperSport to showcase all the behind the scenes activities of the competition as well as profile players, coaches and other role-players.

SuperSport will be responsible for all the content production including the recruitment, management and training of production interns for the production of the live content and magazine show.

MultiChoice will also offer five fully paid academic scholarships to qualifying players and interns as a further means to professional development and advancement.

Broadcasting the MultiChoice Diski Challenge
SuperSport will be the primary carrier of the games on the DStv platform – with live matches broadcast primarily on SuperSport Select (DStv channel 210) and SuperSport 4 HD (DStv channel 204), depending on channel scheduling.

MultiChoice will also give community TV channels on its DStv platform the opportunity to broadcast the televised games from the MultiChoice Diski Challenge live, thereby increasing the exposure of the young players and allowing their communities to follow their journeys and experience their triumphs. Community TV channels will have the option to cover the games that will not be broadcast by SuperSport.

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