I noticed that Cape Town based troll blogger Richard Catto is offering to ship copies of Ubuntu 7.10 to his fellow South Africans for a mere R130. He says:
Get your copy of ubuntu 7.10 desktop or server edition on CD delivered to you in South Africa without delays or custom duties by ordering locally direct from Cape Town news right now!
This is a service for South Africans only.
It is purely to save you the trouble of downloading the large files and burning the iso image file to CD yourself.
If you prefer, you may download it yourself and burn the CD yourself.
Should you wish to save the bandwidth costs, or if you have a slow Internet connection, then ordering from us is the answer!
You can, of course, get the cd's shipped to you for free anywhere in the world straight from Canonical. Their website says it takes up to 10 weeks but in my experience the cd's get to South Africa a lot quicker than that.
Ubuntu really is an amazing OS, and I urge you to try it. If you want to try it and can't afford to download it and also don't feel like paying R130 for it, email me at jaxon@soup.co.za and I will send you a copy for free anywhere in Southern Africa with the greatest of pleasure.
edit: I originally described Richard Catto as a whackjob (it was struck through, but nevertheless...). At his request I have removed that description. I don't know him personally, and chances are he is way saner than I will ever be.