It will be a matter of months before all the damaged subsea cable internet infrastructure connecting South Africa to the rest of the world is fully repaired, assuming no further issues or complications.
A huge internet outage hit SA, and several West African countries, on 14 March, as four subsea cables were simultaneously damaged in the ocean off the Ivory Coast.
A number of online services have already resolved service interruptions caused by the severe outage and latency issues by rerouting traffic onto alternate subsea cables.