There is no company that deserves a R3.5bn fine more than Telkom. This bloated monopoly has crippled the South African economy for years and held us back as the rest of the world has launched into the digital age. It's only due to ISP's, new international cables, ICASA, the big telecoms (MTN, Vodacom, etc) and other activists that we have seen this beast slowly being prodded out of its incompetent slumber.

I'm in the heart of the Eastern Cape, East London. Sure people will say Port Elizabeth is bigger or the Bhisho is the capital but East London, part of the Buffalo City Metro, is the real heart. Cry Freedom was based on the activities of East London newspaper editor, Donald Woods and his friendship with Steve Biko. East London is also nearer to former President Nelson Mandela's Qunu home.