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President Mbeki crosses the digital divide
[Johannesburg, 12 October 2001] - President Thabo Mbeki is to visit
a remote region of the Eastern Cape this weekend to review the progress
of a project taking ICT to a village on the wrong side of the digital
divide.
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Act together to rebuild society says Mbeki
QUMBU -- People should set their minds to the task of working together
to rebuild their lives and not merely sit there saying what should
be done for them, President Thabo Mbeki said at the weekend.
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Rural Tsilitwa residents stunned by CSIR
tele-medicine project
QUMBU -- "We are going through hard times these days. Even those
who were disadvantaged say it was not like this during the apartheid
days," said Health MEC Bevan Goqwana at the Makhenkesi Stofile Technical
College this week.
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President Mbeki visits Tsilitwa
- a community crossing the digital divide, with the help of a CSIR-led
project
President Thabo Mbeki takes to deep-rural Tsilitwa - located in
the mountainous Qumbu district of the Eastern Cape
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Manguzi ICT Training for School-based Educators
Background
CSIR icomtek was involved in establishing connectivity to support
local economic development within the region of Manguzi in the KwaNgwanase
district of far northern KwaZulu-Natal. Read
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CSIR awarded first place in Stockholm challenge
An innovative combination of connectivity technologies has won CSIR
Information and Communications Technology (icomtek) a first place
in the Equal Access category of the Stockholm Challenge in Sweden
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Remote community comes into the Information
age
The community of Manguzi in KwaZulu-Natal has been excluded from
the benefits of the Information Age, but that is set to change as
a result of a partnership with the CSIR.
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President Thabo Mbeki's Answers to Questions
in Parliament, 24 October 2001
One of the matters that I might have mentioned earlier, is a very
interesting project in a locality in Qumbu, in a place called Tsilitwa.
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Window opens on SA's back of beyond
The hills are alive to the sounds of an e-village trying its best
to be born, writes Carol Paton 'Welcome to the bundus, the back
of beyond and the middle of nowhere," grins Zolani Mkosi, praise
singer, volunteer teacher and information communication technology
enthusiast in the tiny Eastern Cape village of Tsilitwa.
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