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.
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.
Funded by Glencore Coal, Project Isizwe has deployed 32 free WiFi hotspots across 28 physical site locations. These hotspots serve low-income citizens in the Emalahleni coal mining communities of Phola, Ogies, Middleburg, Mhluzi, Kwa-Guqa, Klarinet, Lynville, Ackerville, Thubelihle, Rietspruit, Clewer, Kriel, Belfast and Witbank. Across these communities, 34,000 monthly active users connect to the internet. Each user receives 1GB of free internet access per day, per device. The free WiFi provides connectivity that would otherwise cost the citizens living in these communities in excess of R7 million per month. Since inception, this project has saved citizens in the Glencore mining communities more than R36 million.
In the North West Province communities of Rustenburg, Bethanie, Steelpoort and Lydenburg, Glencore Ferroalloys has funded the deployment of 25 free WiFi hotspots which provide 500MB of free daily internet to the mine workers and their families. These sites connect more than 5,000 monthly average users, resulting in R1.4 million in community savings since July 2020.
In the Northern Cape’s Sishen region, Project Isizwe has deployed 10 hotspots to connect the solar farm communities to free community WiFi, in a project enabled by Acciona. The 10 sites in Deben and Mapoteng give users 200MB of free WiFi a day, connecting almost 6,000 users each month. Collectively, these users consume 1800GB of data in the average week, resulting in a monthly savings of R2.5 million.
Four free WiFi hotspots in the Western Cape town of Hermon serve Gouda Wind Farm workers and their families. The free WiFi connects the community’s library and homes to the internet, with a 200MB free daily allocation per device. Each month more than 350 community members use more than 500GB of data as they connect to the free WiFi.
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. Project Isizwe – in partnership with the Futuregrowth Community Property Fund – has connected free WiFi at 7 shopping centres across South Africa. Each month, more than 30,000 economically active shoppers in the townships of Thulamahashe, Mahikeng, Gqeberha, Diepsloot, Katlehong, Orange Farm and Heidelberg connect to 500MB of free daily WiFi, ensuring that as employment and economic activities thrive in these communities, so citizens are equitably able to participate in the online world.
In a similar project – powered by SEACOM – citizens from the Alexandra township in Sandton are provisioned with free WiFi at Sandton Mall. Each user from this economically mobile community is provisioned with 500MB free internet per day, diversifying internet access in support of economic growth.
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.
Privacy policy
PROJECT ISIZWE (NPO Registration number 2013/146023/08) would like to inform you (the “data subject”) that we are committed to safeguarding your privacy and the confidentiality of your personal information. In terms of Section 18 of the Protection of Personal Information Act No 4. of 2013 (“POPI”) with effect from 01 July 2021, we are obliged to provide you with information when collecting personal information from you.
It is important that you understand how we collect and process your data, and for what purpose we use your information. This policy applies to all data collected by PROJECT ISIZWE in whichever manner or form, for the execution of our obligations in respect of our Non-Profit Company/Organisation.
Your personal data:
Personal Data is any information about you that enables you to be identified.
Some data that we may collect includes:
o your particulars – name and surname, email address, phone number, physical and postal address, gender, ethnicity and date of birth
o images, photos and videos
o social media accounts and webpage addresses
o online identifiers e.g. IP address, URL, web browsers and time zones when registering on our website
How we collect your data:
The initial collection of data is done through various methods and channels, including information obtained via:
o our website www.projectisizwe.org and/or via our social media platforms
o direct emails
o telephone and mobile communication e.g Whatsapp
o through social media platforms e.g. Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn
o through the use of website cookies and other various technologies
The majority of information collected will be done through you. We may also receive/collect your information from intermediaries that may have referred you to us.
A parent and/or a legal guardian will be required to give written consent to the use and processing of personal data should the data subject be a minor.
How we use your data:
Your personal information is initially required in order for us to communicate with you. Thereafter we will collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information mainly to provide you with access to the offerings and projects we are involved in and to fulfil the mandate that we have been given by you voluntarily joining our network.
This may include:
o communication regarding day to day activities
o notify you of new campaigns and developments that may be of interest to you
o direct marketing and/or bulk general emails e.g. newsletters
o confirm, verify and update your particulars
o analyse data in order to help us improve our website and overall experience that our Non-Profit Company provides
We will take all precautions to ensure that third parties treat your information with the same level of protection as required by us. Your information may also be hosted on servers managed by third-party service providers, which may be located in or outside South Africa. We may also be required to share your information with clients outside of South Africa. Should this be the case, you are entitled to ask us how your personal information will be protected in the foreign country, and we will endeavour to try and assist you.
Unless we are legally obliged to share your information, it will only be shared in order to comply with legal and regulatory requirements. The Angel Network administrators and staff are bound by confidentiality clauses in their letters of employment.
How long we use your data for:
We will not keep your data for any longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. Your data will remain protected for as long as we hold it. Should we no longer require your information, it will be destroyed in a way that de-identifies you.
Security of your data:
Our Company’s IT Infrastructure as well as storage of physical records meets all acceptable security standards required to be POPI compliant.
Voluntary supply of your information:
The supply of information is voluntary and by you supplying us with your information, you are consenting to, and accepting our privacy policy. Should you not agree with our privacy policy, kindly refrain from using our website and inform us to immediately destroy any information that may have received from you. The consequences however, of not providing or allowing use of your information, is that we will be unable to offer you any of our services.
Your rights:
You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in terms of section 11(3) of POPI. If you believe that your information is not processed in a correct manner, or that your information is being used for a purpose other than that for what it was originally intended, or if you wish to request access to the information we hold of you, please contact our Information Officer below. You have the right to request us to delete, destroy, limit, update or correct such data. Such requests are to be made in writing to the email address provided below. Where we are unable to resolve your request to your satisfaction, you have the right to contact an Information Regulator accordingly.
Information Officer:
Name: Marlyn Pillay
Contact Number: +27 100 132 430
Email Address: marlyn@wordpress-977049-3670318.cloudwaysapps.com
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Cookies:
What are cookies? Cookies are simple text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier, digits and numbers and website’s domain name.
Use of Cookies: Our website currently uses analytical cookies i.e. Google Analytics.
These cookies enable us and third-party services to collect aggregated data for statistical purposes on how our visitors use the website. These cookies do not contain personal information such as names and email addresses and are used to help us improve your user experience of the website.
How to delete cookies? If you want to restrict or block the cookies that are set by our website, you can do so through your browser setting. Alternatively, you can visit www.internetcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers and devices. You will find general information about cookies and details on how to delete cookies from your device.
Changes to this Privacy Policy:
Should we be required to change our privacy policy at any given time, we will do so.
It may be necessary should existing laws change or be updated, and/or if we need to change the way we conduct our organisation. Any changes will be updated on our website. We recommend that you check our policy frequently for latest information.
Last updated 15 June 2022
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Project Isizwe?
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