Lets be honest, most of us are cash-strapped when we near the end of the month, but that does not necessarily mean you can’t go out and do something fun. This is where everything.to.do comes in.

everything.to.do is a new site where you can find and share affordable and fun things to do in our beautiful country South Africa. The site was developed by Jako van Rensburg after he was frustrated to not being able to find good affordable stuff to do with his girlfriend.

everything.to.do works of a crowdsource model where you the user submit info regarding places you visited. The nice thing about the site is, is that it is proudly South African allowing you to explore things to do in our beautiful country, be it from finding a nice coffee joint to finding that perfect picnic spot.

The site’s layout is clean, simple to navigate and have a nice modern look to it. Jako plans on adding a commenting system as well as a media section to the site that will allow users to comment on their experiences with listed places and also allow them to upload photos or videos. everything.to.do currently also has support for GPS devices by allowing you to download gpx files and viewing the places on your GPS, and for those without GPS you can also view the map on the site.

Go check out everthing.to.do and start adding your favorite things to do in South Africa, also join the Fan Page on Facebook or follow them on Twitter.

While the rest of the world has been enjoying cheap uncapped Internet for long now, South African has been milked for every cent they have just to use a couple of gigs a month. This all has changed drastically the past week.

The past week the South African Internet market has been shaken up again and this time it is huge. It all started out as a campaign I have been following for a few weeks called “Free The Web” on Facebook and that is just what MWeb did, they set the Web free.

MWeb introduced uncapped Internet accounts the past week for as little as R219 per month for 384kbps and R539 per month for 4mbps data only options. MWeb also launched all in one packages starting from R349 per month for 384kbps to R899 for 4mbps.

The service is shaped but good news is that there is also an unshaped option available for businesses ranging from R499 to R1999, this service includes a Cisco router and 5 static IP addresses.

Just a day after MWeb announced the new standard for uncapped internet in South Africa other ISPs started following with OpenWeb partnering up with MWeb to offer their customers the same special, another entrant is @lantic/vox which beat the price of the all in one uncapped packages.

Good news is that Afrihost who previously shook up the Internet market with the introduction of their R29 per GB ADSL announced that they will also be introducing uncapped packages any day now, they have been looking into it for a while now and MWeb just beat them to it said Gian Visser CEO at Afrihost.

I like what I am seeing happening in the local Internet market, and just like Afrihost has set the standard of sub R30 per GB prices, MWeb has now set a new standard for uncapped Internet and other ISPs will just have to follow to stay ahead in the local Internet market.

Late last year Afrihost took the ADSL market by surprise by introducing the lowest per GB rate available in South Africa.

Afrihost introduced its R29 per Gigabyte offer and everybody jumped ship almost instantly including me and since then I haven’t had a problem, until my Credit Card expired leaving my details invalid at Afrihost. I did the right thing and paid my account via EFT and faxed proof of payment through but unfortunately they still suspended my account.

I didn’t notice it immediately as I was on another account due to being capped the previous month, but around the 4th after switching back to my Afrihost account I found out that my account was suspended. I phoned the Afrihost support line and after about 20 mins of holding on I was eventually put through to someone that could help me and update my Credit Card details.

The waiting period had me very upset and I expressed my dissatisfaction on twitter where Afrihost CEO, Gian Visser, picked it up and contacted me. Today I was contacted by Gian Visser and was pleased to find out that they credited my account with a few extra Gigs for the inconvenience caused.

Over all I can not complain about Afrihost, their ADSL offering is superb. I never have a problem with line speed or latency, in fact I get better speeds and latency than on my normal SAIX accounts. As for the long waiting for support, I guess they were just very busy at the time as previous calls to their support line got me through almost instantly.

Afrihost is still running their R29 per GB ADSL offering but it could end at any moment, so I would suggest that if you are not already making use of this cheap ADSL offering get to it. If you sign up for the Afrihost offer now your price of R29 per GB will be locked in forever, oh and have I mentioned that Afrihost has a two for one top-up offer regularly where you can top-up your account with 2 GB worth of data for the price of only 1 GB.

Thank you Afrihost for the extra gigs, I will put it to good use.

By now every body have heard of, or signed up to the limited R29 per GB ADSL offer from Afrihost.

This offer by Afrihost, known for its hosting, has set the wheel rolling to drive broadband prices down in South Africa. Although Afrihost is only offering it as a limited promotion, if you sign up during the promotion you will always be charged R29 per GB for as long as you are a customer.

Now Afrihost has again disrupted the local internet market by slashing their price by another 50% if you top up. If you are a Afrihost customer you can now top up at R14.50 per GB. This is the cheapest per GB price for international bandwidth South Africa has ever seen, it even comes close to what other ISP charge for 1 GB local only bandwidth.

If you haven’t by now signed up to the cheapest ADSL in South Africa, what are you waiting for? Sign up here for cheap international ADSL bandwidth, or if you are looking to host a website why not visit Afrhost site to sign up for one of their great hosting packages.

PS. I dropped my long time ISP WebAfrica and switched over to Afrihost about 2 month ago and haven’t looked back since, saving me a total of 50% on my 5GB cap at home.

In a country like South Africa where broadband prices is sky high one player in the ISP market stirred up things recently with their R29 per GB offering.

Afrihost mostly known for their hosting has caused a great stir in the local ADSL market by dropping the price of ADSL bandwidth to an all time low of only R29 per GB. Users are not hesitating laeaving their current ISP to get their hands on this great offer by Afrihost.

I personally cancelled my 5GB account from WebAfrica and purchased one from Afrihost for a mere R149, where WebAfrica was charging me R290 for the same amount of bandwidth. The nice thing about the special from Afrihost is that once you signed up for the R29 per GB price your price will remain the same as long as you are part of Afrihost.

Bandwidth for these accounts are provided via the Internet Solutions network that makes use of the SAT3 undersea fibre cable.

If you are frustrated with the high broadband prices in South Africa, and ISP’s ripping off the consumers please go and support Afrihost and sign up for their R29 per GB ADSL accounts. This is by far the most cheapest broadband price currently in South Africa.

Just a friendly reminder for you guys that missed the G-Connect Giveaway post. You have until end of day Friday to enter to stand a chance to win one of 2 G-Connect vouchers to the value of R50 each.

Each voucher can be used to buy 1GB worth of Internation ADSL bandwidth, this is a great way to test out G-Connect’s great offerings if you always wanted to. G-Connect not only offers ADSL connectivity but the voucher can also be used to access 3G aswell as G-Connect WiFi hotspots with your phone.

To enter simply follow the instructions on the G-Connect Giveaway post, good luck to all.

We here at iGeek believe in driving broadband prices down in South Africa, and thats exacly what the guys at G-Connect is doing at the moment.

A while back I wrote  a article on G-Connect’s great pricing. G-Connect currently offers the lowest price for carry over ADSL data in South Africa at only 4.9c per Megabyte, and the best part is you can use your one account for wifi, 3G and ADSL.

The guys at G-Connect have been very kind and donated two R50 G-Connect vouchers for me to give away. To enter simply reply to this post or retweet the following on twitter “@diekloon @G_Connect Win a G-Connect Voucher with iGeek and G-Connect http://bit.ly/N01RH”

For more information regarding G-Connect’s great offerings visit their website.

G-Connect is the latest company with its mind set on driving broadband prices to the ground in South Africa. G-Connect enterend the market a few months back first with their wireless offerings, and recently introduced G-Connect ADSL at the cheapest rate for unshaped prepaid ADSL in South Africa.

Sure there are other cheap offers on the market now, like FNB Connect and Edgars Club Connect, the thing with those packages are that there is catches. FNB Connect asks a R69 activation while the Edgars offer is only R29 it only applies to the first gig there after prices is sky high.

G-Connect ADSL connectivity is available at only 4.5c per MB during Happy Hour and 4.9c per MB during normal hours, that equates to R50.17 for 1GB worth of data that is unshaped and has carry-over. Some other great news is that G-Connect will soon launch prepaid vouchers obtainable from various outlets, something similiar like Axxess is doing.

What are the benefits of G-Connect ADSL?

• It’s fast.
• It’s cheap.
• It’s awesome.
• One account.
• Prepaid.
• Free Connection Manager Software.
• Data rollover.
• 24/7 Customer Support.
• No Sign Up and Activation Fee.
• Unshaped

For more information on G-Connect’s great offering visit their website here.

The long awaited SEACOM cable will be flipping the on switch today.

After a setback about a month ago SEACOM had to postpone the launch of their 1.28Tbps undersea cable stretching from London to Cape Town by 28 days.

From today retail carriers will be able to utilise the $600-million, 15 000 km undersea fibre-optic cable system with equal and open access to affordable bandwidth

To celebrate the launch of SEACOM, Neotel and CISCO have invited stakeholders and the media to a live demonstration of the fibre optic cable.  Delegates will also be given the opportunity to test drive the SEACOM cable through provided Internet connections.

“SEACOM is turning on the switch for you to enjoy true broadband!” the companies said in a joint statement.