South Africa Internet Hit by Multiple Subsea Cable Breaks (subtelforum.com)

> Microsoft says: “We have determined that multiple fibre cables on the West Coast of Africa — WACS, MainOne, SAT3, ACE — have been impacted

Bring in the zeppelines

The west giveth the west taketh?

As in, one authoritarian splinternet , one western splinternet , one Grey zone splinternet?

the government will blame Zionists.

I have a bad feeling this is going to become much more common. It's just takes a ship dragging anchor to damage a cable.

I know the Houthis sabotaged the one in the Red Sea - funny it all broke down in the same span.

the Nation of South Africa in the last years (?) "made waves" by hosting BRIC nations for economic development, causing a commonly repeated BRICS acronym in some reporting, no?

That’s very suspicious.

South Africa has good resiliency on cables. About half a dozen, some going around on east side some on west.

There are often issues on individual ones - but multiple incidents on both sides? Very sus