Our work

Uncapping Education

Project Isizwe is providing educators and learners in 69 schools across South Africa with free, uncapped WiFi. Internet access – and all that the online world has to offer – is a fundamental component of contemporary education. Project Isizwe recognises that giving learners access to uncapped internet enables learning opportunities that will best equip them for the future, and enhance learning in and beyond the classroom. Together with multiple partners – including Sibanye Stillwater, Distell, 3 Bears Trading – Project Isizwe is Uncapping Education for more than 500 educators and 20,000 learners across South Africa.

Free WiFi for mining and solar and wind farm communities

Since 2018, Project Isizwe has installed 70 hotspots that provide free internet access to mine and solar farm workers and their families in South Africa’s Mpumalanga, North West and Northern Cape provinces…

Uncapping Africa

 

Project Isizwe believes that all Africans should have access to uncapped, high quality internet. Every cent donated to Project Isizwe is converted into credit which is immediately available to Project Isizwe beneficiaries via a blockchain wallet and redeemable for uncapped internet access. Within minutes of your donation, a user gets free, uncapped access to the internet.

Free WiFi in support of economic growth and diversity

Access to economic growth opportunities is a critical outcome for citizens living in South Africa’s township communities. Providing and diversifying economic growth goes hand-in-hand with increasing access to the internet and ensuring these upwardly mobile populations in the high growth mass market have community development opportunities in spaces where retail and connectivity merge…

Free WiFi in community homes

500 homes in the Western Cape’s Philippi township have access to 500MB of free daily WiFi just outside the Teguka Business Park. Enabled by SEACOM, the Project Isizwe hotspot ensures that residents in the area have free access to the internet. People living within the hotspot’s coverage area are able to safely access the internet from the comfort of their homes. Others connect daily at the public access point, situated at the entrance to the business park.

When free WiFi runs out top up with affordable R5 WiFi for South Africans

Project Isizwe’s free WiFi work is the foundation upon which we are building to uncap Africa. We work closely with our funders, sponsors and partners to provide free WiFi, but the costs in uncapping this remain prohibitive. So, when the daily free data allocations run out, Project Isizwe offers users the opportunity to top up with affordable, uncapped internet. For only R5 a day for uncapped internet, free WiFi users who reach their daily cap can affordably top up with uncapped WiFi, enjoying access to equitable internet.

Equitable internet access also needs to be sustainable. Until uncapped WiFi can be free for everyone, everywhere, Project Isizwe endeavours to provide sustainably affordable WiFi. The R5 WiFi product means that users can connect to uncapped WiFi at a price point that is affordable and sustainable.

Uncapped R5 WiFi at home

Project Isizwe believes that everyone should have access to uncapped WiFi in the comfort of their own homes. Why should Africans not be afforded the same access as their first-world counterparts?

Lamontville is a township in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province where Project Isizwe and Investec have partnered to deploy WiFi into homes. With a growing population of more than 35,000 people and 7,500 homes, Project Isizwe aims to connect the Lamontville community to uncapped WiFi by the middle of 2022. The project will deploy 90 high-range access points across Lamontville as well as 320 home extender units into community homes. Positioned as public WiFi hotspots, the 90 high-range access points cover public areas and homes in high-density living areas. This coverage allows Project Isizwe to deliver high quality, uncapped WiFi to homes in Lamontville. The home extender units extend and boost the WiFi signal inside homes that are on the low-coverage fringe of the access point’s WiFi signal, enabling true home WiFi for people living in this community. Since inception 3,000 unique users have connected to the network and have paid for and used 21TB of data. Monthly we have 1,000 customers using the service, which is already proving financially sustainable at the unit economic level with a steady growth in monthly sales revenue.

Also in Kwa-Zulu Natal, Mpophomeni is a community of 26,000 people. Project Isizwe has designed and deployed a WiFi project in Mpophomeni designed to deliver affordable, reliable and unlimited internet connectivity to the community, enabling access for citizens while creating a viable and sustainable business model for Project Isizwe. The 21 R5 Isizwe WiFi hotspots that the project has deployed into Mpophomeni, provide a coverage network where paying customers can access unlimited, reliable internet. At the R5 a day for unlimited internet access price point, the connectivity is affordable for the community members. Sites are selected on the basis of both technical and economic feasibility, with the goal of provisioning sustainably affordable, unlimited WiFi to citizens in Mpophomeni.

Dunoon is a large township in the Western Cape, home to more than 31,000 people living in 11,500 homes. Project Isizwe has deployed a R5 Isizwe WiFi network into the Dunoon community. 20 high-range WiFi access points are installed at 20 community homes to provide the community of Dunoon with access to affordable, uncapped internet in the comfort of their own homes. The project is still in its early stages, and is already demonstrating the community’s appetite for uncapped internet at home.

Uncapped home and public WiFi in support of education

In partnership with Curro, Project Isizwe has deployed 65 WiFi hotspots into the community of Protea Glen in Soweto. Curro Academy Protea Glen serves 1368 learners predominantly living in the Protea Glen community. The WiFi project’s education imperative is to provision accessible and uncapped internet to the 1368 learners, as well as their 57 educators. Learners and educators are able to connect to free, uncapped internet at any of the 65 hotspots across the community. In addition to the Curro sponsored educator and learner access, the project also serves the wider Protea Glen community, enabling them access to affordable, uncapped internet at the R5 per day per device price point. The community WiFi – in conjunction with sponsored WiFi for the education beneficiaries – is enabling sustainable home WiFi while ensuring educators and learners can extend their teaching and learning activities beyond the physical classrooms at their school.

Our work

Project Isizwe believes that all Africans should have access to uncapped, high quality internet. Every cent donated to Project Isizwe is converted into credit which is immediately available to Project Isizwe beneficiaries via a blockchain wallet and redeemable for uncapped internet access. Within minutes of your donation, a user gets free, uncapped access to the internet..

Uncapping Africa

Project Isizwe believes that all Africans should have access to uncapped, high quality internet. Every cent donated to Project Isizwe is converted into credit which is immediately available to Project Isizwe beneficiaries via a blockchain wallet and redeemable for uncapped internet access. Within minutes of your donation, a user gets free, uncapped access to the internet.

Uncapping Education

Project Isizwe is providing educators and learners in 15 schools across South Africa with free, uncapped WiFi. Internet access – and all that the online world has to offer – is a fundamental component of education in 2022. Project Isizwe recognises that giving learners access to uncapped internet enables learning opportunities that will best equip them for the future, and enhance learning in and beyond the classroom. Together with multiple partners – including 3 Bears, Curro and Vula Amehlo – Project Isizwe is Uncapping Education for more than 500 educators and 20,000 learners across South Africa.

Free WiFi for mining and solar and wind farm communities

Since 2018, Project Isizwe has installed 70 hotspots that provide free internet access to mine and solar farm workers and their families in South Africa’s Mpumalanga, North West and Northern Cape provinces…

Free WiFi in support of economic growth and diversity

Access to economic growth opportunities is a critical outcome for citizens living in South Africa’s township communities. Providing and diversifying economic growth goes hand-in-hand with increasing access to the internet and ensuring these upwardly mobile populations in the high growth mass market have community development opportunities in spaces where retail and connectivity merge…

Free WiFi in community homes

500 homes in the Western Cape’s Philippi township have access to 500MB of free daily WiFi just outside the Teguka Business Park. Enabled by SEACOM, the Project Isizwe hotspot ensures that residents in the area have free access to the internet. People living within the hotspot’s coverage area are able to safely access the internet from the comfort of their homes. Others connect daily at the public access point, situated at the entrance to the business park.

When free WiFi runs out

Project Isizwe’s free WiFi work is the foundation upon which we are building to uncap Africa. We work closely with our funders, sponsors and partners to provide free WiFi, but the costs in uncapping this remain prohibitive. So, when the daily free data allocations run out, Project Isizwe offers users the opportunity to top up with affordable, uncapped internet. For only R5 a day for uncapped internet, almost 100 of our free WiFi users who reach their daily cap across these projects are affordably topping up with uncapped WiFi, enjoying access to equitable internet.

Affordable R5 WiFi for South Africans

Equitable internet access also needs to be sustainable. Until uncapped WiFi can be free for everyone, everywhere, Project Isizwe endeavours to provide sustainably affordable WiFi. For only R5 per day per device, Project Isizwe users are able to connect to uncapped internet for 24 hours. The R5 WiFi product means that users can connect to uncapped WiFi at a price point that is affordable and sustainable.

Uncapped R5 WiFi at home

Project Isizwe believes that everyone should have access to uncapped WiFi in the comfort of their own homes. Why should Africans not be afforded the same access as their first-world counterparts?

Lamontville is a township in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province where Project Isizwe and Investec have partnered to deploy WiFi into homes. With a growing population of more than 35,000 people and 7,500 homes, Project Isizwe aims to connect the Lamontville community to uncapped WiFi by the middle of 2022. The project will deploy 90 high-range access points across Lamontville as well as 320 home extender units into community homes. Positioned as public WiFi hotspots, the 90 high-range access points cover public areas and homes in high-density living areas. This coverage allows Project Isizwe to deliver high quality, uncapped WiFi to homes in Lamontville. The home extender units extend and boost the WiFi signal inside homes that are on the low-coverage fringe of the access point’s WiFi signal, enabling true home WiFi for people living in this community. Since inception 3,000 unique users have connected to the network and have paid for and used 21TB of data. Monthly we have 1,000 customers using the service, which is already proving financially sustainable at the unit economic level with a steady growth in monthly sales revenue.

Also in Kwa-Zulu Natal, Mpophomeni is a community of 26,000 people. Project Isizwe has designed and deployed a WiFi project in Mpophomeni designed to deliver affordable, reliable and unlimited internet connectivity to the community, enabling access for citizens while creating a viable and sustainable business model for Project Isizwe. The 21 R5 Isizwe WiFi hotspots that the project has deployed into Mpophomeni, provide a coverage network where paying customers can access unlimited, reliable internet. At the R5 a day for unlimited internet access price point, the connectivity is affordable for the community members. Sites are selected on the basis of both technical and economic feasibility, with the goal of provisioning sustainably affordable, unlimited WiFi to citizens in Mpophomeni.

Dunoon is a large township in the Western Cape, home to more than 31,000 people living in 11,500 homes. Project Isizwe has deployed a R5 Isizwe WiFi network into the Dunoon community. 20 high-range WiFi access points are installed at 20 community homes to provide the community of Dunoon with access to affordable, uncapped internet in the comfort of their own homes. The project is still in its early stages, and is already demonstrating the community’s appetite for uncapped internet at home.

Uncapped home and public WiFi in support of education

In partnership with Curro, Project Isizwe has deployed 65 WiFi hotspots into the community of Protea Glen in Soweto. Curro Academy Protea Glen serves 1368 learners predominantly living in the Protea Glen community. The WiFi project’s education imperative is to provision accessible and uncapped internet to the 1368 learners, as well as their 57 educators. Learners and educators are able to connect to free, uncapped internet at any of the 65 hotspots across the community. In addition to the Curro sponsored educator and learner access, the project also serves the wider Protea Glen community, enabling them access to affordable, uncapped internet at the R5 per day per device price point. The community WiFi – in conjunction with sponsored WiFi for the education beneficiaries – is enabling sustainable home WiFi while ensuring educators and learners can extend their teaching and learning activities beyond the physical classrooms at their school.