{"id":117975,"date":"2017-06-01T12:46:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T10:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=117975"},"modified":"2017-06-01T12:47:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T10:47:33","slug":"the-best-connected-provinces-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/117975-the-best-connected-provinces-in-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"The best-connected provinces in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stats SA has shared\u00a0its General Household Survey 2016 results, which show that Gauteng and the Western Cape are the best-connected provinces in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The report shows that 59.3% of South African households had at least one member who had access to or used the Internet at home, work, place of study, or Internet caf\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p>Access to the Internet using all available means was highest in Gauteng (72.2%), the Western Cape (68.5%), and Mpumalanga (58.1%), and lowest in Limpopo (42.4%), and Eastern Cape (49.2%).<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 10%\u00a0of South African households had access to the Internet at home.<\/p>\n<p>Access to the Internet at home was highest among households in the Western Cape (23.6%) and Gauteng (14.8%), and lowest in Limpopo (1.6%) and the North West (3.5%).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Percentage of households with access to the Internet at home, or for which at least one member has access to or used the Internet \u2013 Provinces 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Internet-access.jpg\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"1138246516\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"slb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-213336\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Internet-access.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Internet-access.jpg 605w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Internet-access-600x303.jpg 600w\" alt=\"Internet access\" width=\"605\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/213334-best-and-worst-connected-provinces-in-south-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/211958-south-african-broadband-very-slow-and-very-expensive.html\">South African broadband \u2013 very slow, and very expensive<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stats SA has shared its General Household Survey 2016 results, which show that Gauteng and the Western Cape are the best-connected provinces in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":108645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[2674,15041,2163],"class_list":["post-117975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-broadband-1","tag-connectivity","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}