What Parkhurst did next: Smart grids, solar power and a virtual neighbourhood watch
The plan to take the suburb off-grid is maturing into a microcosm of the smart city itself.
The plan to take the suburb off-grid is maturing into a microcosm of the smart city itself.
The Residents’ Association wants to convert the whole suburb into an eco-friendly zone.
The network is currently getting around 95Mbps download speeds, and 9Mbps upload speed.
Vumatel and the Parkhurst Residents & Business Owners’ Association have begun the construction of the suburb’s own fibre network.
On a R143 ride with surge pricing in effect, our driver received just R71 after Uber took its sizeable cut.
Rand water has issued a notice about emergency work to be done on its A6 pipeline this evening, affecting several Johannesburg suburbs.
A very handy phone at R3 899, the TCL 20 R 5G is only missing one element – a decent camera. Other than that, it ticks all the boxes.
The new initiative seeks to incentivise spending money at local SMEs, with Airbnb investing roughly half a million rand in the project.
UberCOMMUNITY will be available from 11am to 3pm. You can donate food, blankets, clothes and sanitary products to Alexandra residents affected by floods.
Joburg robotics startup is aiming at heavy industry with inspect-o-machine.
Power outages hit many suburbs across Joburg from as early as 5am this morning, leaving many in the cold and unable to work.
A new local edition of Monopoly will be out by the end of this year, and you can help choose which SA destinations get their own space on the board.