Here's how long it will take for the internet in SA to be fully functional again

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.