This is likely to be a real problem in SA as much as India: see http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2010-September/000895....
So it could be that (a) local internet connections from Telkom somehow bestow a non-SA IP address on your connection, and (b) that some folks accessing the internet from their workplace have IP addresses configured centrally, so it shows up as being from another country, both of which are complicated by the fact that (c) some overseas South Africans are also editing and reading from overseas.
What the statistics *don't* accurately tell us is the overall skew between SA-based users (editors and readers) and overseas users on Wikipedias in English and in any other South African language. A better gauge of local contribution might be the number of editors who self-identify as South African, and identify the languages they edit in. There are existing lists of SA Wikipedians, and it might be a good idea to popularise and populate them - as well as perhaps deepen them in terms of areas of interest? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_South_Africa and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:South_African_Wikipedians). When Kerryn and I last checked, they were quite dated.
What the statistics *do* tell us though is how African language Wikipedias within South Africa are doing (excluding English). Regardless of where the page views and edits are coming from, a summary of numbers is yet useful in terms of understanding the level of interest and the quantity of people involved. Of course, other statistics, such as these captured in a monthly report in India by Shiju Alex ( http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2010-June/000771.html ), if developed in South Africa, for languages used locally excluding English, would provide an excellent analysis of where things are. If anyone here is interested in finding out how Shiju compiles his monthly updates, you can get in touch with him at shijualexonline at gmail, I'm sure he'd be happy to help. You might find it useful to have this additional statistical layer analysed and reported; especially for emerging language Wikipedias, the growth interest, pages, quality of pages, number of editors can be illuminating - and if things are well, also encouraging.
Cheers, Achal
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At one stage, the log file of my website reported that I receive a lot of visitors from the USA...but all the time it were visitors from S.A. that uses the ADSL from Telkom... For some reason it were reported as from USA....can't it be the same reason perhaps?