Internet Emerges in South Africa

Gary Deane notes This All Africa Story on South Africa. They say PC usage and Internet penetration has seen little or no growth over the past year. The home PC market has had only 3% growth while the statistic for Web access has been even more dismal, showing an increase of only 1.4%.

Only 8,4% of adult South Africans residing in major metropolitan areas have access to the web, with this figure dropping to 1,3% amongst the black population. This is way below countries such as Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the USA, which generally have above 60% Internet penetration.