Tshwane’s free WiFi network, Project Isizwe, has just hit the sort of userbase growth figures that frankly make us a bit green with envy.

Back in November, it launched a free video-on-demand service called WiFi TV, which features mostly short clips made by local volunteers and citizen journalists. And in February – which hasn’t even finished yet – it reckons videos across the five channels have been watched more than a million times.

WiFi TV is delivered by the City of Tshwane (CoT) and described as ‘hyperlocal’, and access is unlimited over the Isizwe network. Of all the channels, we’re told its My City which is the most popular, which includes public service information from CoT. Music and sports channels are planned for the future.

You can watch WiFi TV over the open internet too, through Tobetsa’s home page here.

By way of spurious comparison, here’s the video which first to hit one million views on YouTube, less than a year after that service launched in 2005.