Hanno Labuschagne

Pretoria

MyBroadband journalist. I write stuff and narrate things. I sometimes shoot stuff. Film is the ammo of choice. I also hum movie themes all the time.

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Most affordable 50Mbps fibre in South Africa - From R579 per month

2 weeks ago | mybroadband.co.za | Hanno Labuschagne

Herotel offers the most affordable 50Mbps fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) package among South Africa’s biggest fibre network operators (FNOs). 50Mbps packages provide plenty of bandwidth to support several demanding online applications across multiple devices at the same time. Netflix recommends 15Mbps as the minimum speed for its Premium 4K streaming. That means a household with this package and a 50Mbps line can watch in 4K on up to three devices simultaneously.
Biggest mistakes electric car drivers make

2 weeks ago | mybroadband.co.za | Hanno Labuschagne

Buying a new electric vehicle (EV) and topping up the battery as much as possible at a public charger are among the mistakes first-time EV adopters make. While EV sales have increased exponentially in South Africa in recent years, the community of fully-electric vehicle drivers is still relatively small. Many EV owners are also recent buyers and have far less experience with proper charging habits and etiquette.
How to hit eBucks Level 5 with new rules

2 weeks ago | mybroadband.co.za | Hanno Labuschagne

1.1. Have a minimum monthly deposit of at least R5,500 into your account. 1.2. Have a minimum monthly deposit (excluding inter-account transfers) of R16,500 into your account. 1.3. Have average deposits over 12 months of at least R16,500 into your account2. Initiate at least 10 debit transactions on your account per month. Earn a salary of at least R16,500 and have it deposited into your account.
Warning to people with green ID books and smart ID cards

2 weeks ago | mybroadband.co.za | Hanno Labuschagne

South Africans should take special care when protecting their identification documents from thieves or fraudsters — regardless of whether they use the older green ID book or a smart ID card. IRS Forensic investigator Chad Thomas recently warned of a disturbing trend where syndicates were weaponising stolen IDs to commit various types of crimes. “The common concern is that a stolen identity can be used to give an identity of sorts to an undocumented foreigner,” said Thomas.
Truth about driving licence penalty points in South Africa

3 weeks ago | mybroadband.co.za | Hanno Labuschagne

There is currently no fixed timeline for the national rollout of the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Act. Based on the status of Aarto’s phased rollout, the introduction of driving licence demerit points seems to be at least another year away. Several websites recently posted that Aarto would become effective nationally on 5 June 2025, causing panic among many South Africans.
Eskom battery failure

3 weeks ago | mybroadband.co.za | Hanno Labuschagne

Only three of Eskom’s planned 12 battery energy storage systems (BESS) are operational, delivering less than a fifth of the power the project was supposed to at this point. Over the same period, a single independent power producer (IPP) built a facility with more than triple the capacity of Eskom’s project. The R11-billion BESS rollout formed part of Eskom’s Just Energy Transition (JET) programme and was intended to be the country’s largest distributed battery system.
Dark age warning for South Africa

3 weeks ago | mybroadband.co.za | Hanno Labuschagne

South Africa faces a “dark age” of electricity shortages due to Eskom’s operational challenges, transmission network limits, private power over-regulation, and high solar component import costs. That is according to solar rental company Golsolr’s latest Light Paper, which painted a bleak picture of the country’s energy outlook in the next few years. The first big problem is that Eskom is failing to get its energy availability factor (EAF) to a level where load-shedding can be completely ruled out.
Four years to fix one Eskom power station unit

3 weeks ago | mybroadband.co.za | Hanno Labuschagne

The return to service of one of Eskom’s biggest power station units is running almost a year later than planned, complicating the power utility’s plan to end load-shedding for good. Eskom has recently gone quiet about progress in restoring Medupi Unit 4 to operation with almost four years of downtime since its suffered a catastrophic explosion. In early August 2021, the 720MW unit was taken offline for what was supposed to be a short-term outage for scheduled maintenance.
Gautrain upgrade has one big problem

3 weeks ago | mybroadband.co.za | Hanno Labuschagne

The current expansion plan for the Gautrain passenger rail service will neglect those who need effective public transport the most, the Automobile Association of South Africa (AA) has warned. The AA has long been critical of the Gautrain running at a loss while being subsidised with around R2.5 billion in taxpayer funding annually. In its submission on the Gautrain expansion plans in 2021, the association said that an expensive expansion could not be justified.
Gauteng’s new smart number plates revealed

3 weeks ago | mybroadband.co.za | Hanno Labuschagne

The Gauteng Provincial Government unveiled new “smart” number plates during a pilot launch event at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Ekurhuleni on Thursday, 5 June 2025. The plates will initially be tested over six months on government-owned vehicles operated by G-Fleet Management. The pilot’s commencement comes more than two months after it was initially supposed to be completed, and two and a half years after Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi first announced his new number plate plan.