Three Meshtastic nodes are active in Cape Town for off-grid communications during disasters or just to meet your neighbours
Myself and two other ham radio operators have established 3 Meshtastic nodes that will operate 24/7 to help build out more connectivity across Cape Town.
We are using license-free 868 MHz radios, so anyone can buy these cheap (ish) devices and ge ...continues
Impressed that there is a Bot now auto-posting City of #CapeTown alerts that were normally only on X. Wonder if it is active for other municipalities in #SouthAfrica - good to see more of these types of services appearing in the Fediverse.
Cape Town libraries have free access to Overdrive or Libby eBooks as well as over 7,000 local and international newspapers via PressReader
Apart from the above there is also online access to African storybooks in English, isiXhosa and Afrikaans, Fundza literacy learning, SA curriculum for homeschooling, ISET publication for careers in IT, and more.
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Feels properly wintery in #CapeTown today :) Working from home, and having direct access to my own coffee makes me happy on rainy days! Sure #Eishkom sometimes means I have to drag out my little camp gas setup and mocha pot... but still, I have coffee and laptop so the work goes on!
LilyGo T-Echo license-free radio arrived today. Love that it has a screen to see range and direction to nearby radios, as well as incoming text messages. Can't wait to go walk in the forest and test out whether I can connect to any other #Meshtastic radios across #CapeTown and surrounds.
Quite enjoy my daily photo cull on whatever today's date is - ends up reminding me of good times past. Here I am on my first arvo in Cape Town, South Africa, on 30 April 2018.
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA — With 12 storeys, a breathtaking view of Cape Town's imposing Table Mountain and a minimal ecological footprint, the world's tallest building made with #industrialhemp is soon to open its doors in South Africa.
Workers in central #CapeTown are putting the finishing touches on the 54-room #Hemp Hotel, which is due to be completed in June.
After two years of testing, Cape Town’s Golden Arrow Bus Service will go operational with 60 new electric buses per year
Cape Town-based Golden Arrow Bus Services (GABS) is planning to introduce 60 electric buses to its fleet every year starting in 2024 until it has replaced its full fleet of 1,100 diesel-powered people haulers.
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Google Maps will dodge South Africa’s crime hotspots: Sadly it is needed as tourists have been misdirected
Google Maps will avoid directing motorists through crime hotspots, Pretoria FM reports.
This comes after tourism minister Patricia de Lille and Google country director Alistair Mokoena signed a memorandum of understanding at Parliament on Monday.