24 June 2025
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By Vivienne Fouche
Why Your Mom Needs Wi-Fi (Yes, Even Her)
Internet access is not just for the young and the restless Imagine living without Connectivity – what a horrible thou...
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<p><strong><em>Internet access is not just for the young and the restless</em></strong></p>
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<p>Imagine living without Connectivity - what a horrible thought…(<em>Kanjani</em>?)</p>
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<p>No online entertainment or music, no online flirting or stalking, no gaming, no study access…</p>
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<p>Wait, what?( <em>Ha ho kgonahale.)</em></p>
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<p>Yes, we know. It’s got to be done – and you don’t want to have to go to a shopping mall for the free Wi-Fi just to be able to do your research.</p>
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<p>At HYPA Fibre, we believe everyone should have access to good Internet services at affordable prices – and when we say everyone, we mean everyone – <em>ne oledi</em> included.</p>
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<p>Yes, even your Mom needs Wi-Fi – true story.</p>
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<p>So let’s take a sneak peek at ‘A day in the life of <em>Ma Oledi</em> and see how Wi-Fi access empowers and enables her in almost everything she does.</p>
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<p><strong>Your Mom’s Daily Internet Journey</strong></p>
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<p>It would probably look something like this…</p>
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<p><strong><em>Morning:</em></strong></p>
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<p>Mom wakes up and does some mobile scrolling to check the news, as well as a few trips to some light gossip sites. She realises the time and stops scrolling.</p>
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<p>Mom gets everyone in the household up for school / college / work; everyone has coffee / tea / light breakfast; she checks ford traffic updates on her phone (oh look, if we leave now, it’s not yet so bad).</p>
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<p>Mom gets sidetracked by a WhatsApp – time to quickly pay an outstanding doctor’s bill via EFT.</p>
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<p>Mom realises the time (again) and chases everyone out the house (for real). Everyone sets off to their destinations and the traffic is now down to the luck of the draw.</p>
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<p><strong><em>During the day:</em></strong></p>
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<p>Yay for company Wi-Fi! Mom does her day job; probably with a bit of online browsing at lunch time - there’s a family wedding coming <em>of cause I Oledi Lidinga Is’dwadlo, standard procedure</em>. At the end of the day, she again checks out the traffic in advance hoping for a decent trip home.</p>
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<p><strong><em>Evening:</em></strong></p>
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<p>Back home, Mom now starts worrying about getting dinner ready – she’s going to try out a new recipe she saw on her Facebook feed - and making sure the Teenager does his homework.</p>
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<p>“Why do schools give so much homework these days?” she says out loud, in her kind-of-annoyed voice. “At least we have Wi-Fi for all this research and fact-checking that has to happen.”</p>
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<p>Just then, <em>i tyma liyangena</em> and the Teenager senses another ‘In My Day…’ coming.</p>
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<p>Sure enough..</p>
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<p>“You know,” says Dad, “you’re so lucky, because in my day…”</p>
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<p>The Teenager tries not to roll his eyes too loudly. <em>(Yoh uze nenye)</em></p>
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<p>“…we had to go to the library to find out things. And it wasn’t always open when you needed to do your homework or projects. We just had to manage our time properly.”</p>
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<p>Dad pauses, with a twinkle in his eye.</p>
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<p>“But it wasn’t all bad. That’s where I got to know your Mom when we worked on a research project together.”</p>
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<p>Just as things are threatening to get all mushy, Kid Sister fortunately creates a diversion by dropping the glass tea pot, which breaks instantly and sends Mom into overdrive on her phone looking for a replacement, because she really liked it.</p>
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<p>When she has found and ordered a new one quickly on Temu, the homework, luckily, is now mostly done, so Mom carries on with dinner.</p>
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<p>After dinner, she has a quick video app-to-app Bela chat with her sister; emails her religious group about Sandwich Making Sunday coming up, and finally settles down to watch something on Netflix with Dad.</p>
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<p>Eventually it’s time for bed and some more quick scrolling before lights out.</p>
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<p><strong>Not Just for the Young and the Restless</strong></p>
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<p>It’s true: everyone – and we mean everyone - today needs Internet access that’s fast and reliable, not to mention uncapped and cheaper than mobile data.</p>
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<p>Who knew the ‘older generation’ was also tech-enabled?!</p>
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<p>Empowered? Tick.</p>
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<p>Enabled? Tick.</p>
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<p>Impressive? Double tick!</p>
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<p>So never mind ‘even me’ needing Wi-Fi access.</p>
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<p>Looks like your Mom *really* needs it too.</p>
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<p>Yes, even her.</p>
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<p><em>Tholela i oledi i Wi-Fi sibe mnandi sonke.</em></p>
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