History
Web Africa is a multi-award winning, privately owned internet service provider (ISP) that provides broadband internet access and hosting solutions for local and international clients. Founded in 1997, Web Africa has continually pioneered the industry with first to market ADSL innovations.

Their expertise in operating multiple hosting clusters and automated solutions has resulted in a year-on-year growth of over 70%, making them the 2nd largest hosting provider in South Africa.

With over 30, 000 subscribers, 125 employees and offices in Cape Town, Johannesburg and operations in the USA, the companies’ top-quality support infrastructure has been lauded by customers as one of the best in the industry.

Partners
Smartcom recently invested in Web Africa, taking up a 30% stake in the company. As an experienced operator in the mobile telecoms space, the Smartcom consortium brings additional management and industry expertise to the table, allowing the company to expand further on their offerings while also launching its own network.

Web Africa is a member of the Internet Service Providers Association of SA (ISPA) and has strategic partnerships with Telkom, Internet Solutions and Teraco

Culture
The company’s young and dynamic culture has created an ideal environment for creativity and innovation. They actively attract top technical talent through their unorthodox, Google-style work ethic, which enhances customer service and encourages a low staff turnover.

Research and Development
They invest significant resources in research and development, and their ethos of innovation has led to the development of many of their own technologies such as the prepaid ADSL and DSLSecure (an effective measure against bandwidth theft and hacking), a first to the SA market.

Web Africa provides solutions for corporate, small and medium enterprises, home users and resellers. Their products include shared hosting, dedicated servers, dial-up and ADSL Internet connectivity. They also have one of the strongest reseller programs in SA.

Social Responsibility
Though not dictated to by quotas, Web Africa endeavours to make black economic empowerment (BEE) a priority, and currently has an approx 60% non-white staff complement. Many of their customers are black-owned businesses, and, by providing IT services and the necessary infrastructure and training to expand, they are actively supporting the growth of many self-owned BEE companies.

• Matthew Tagg

  Founder and CEO

  Bsc (CompSci)

  Matthew founded Web Africa in 1997 while in his matric year, that supported him through his studies at UCT and afforded him the ability to learn the basics of business and customer relationship management.

  Under his leadership the company has enjoyed significant growth and pioneered innovative technologies within the South African market.

  In 2007, while MD of Web Africa, Matthew co-founded Teraco and is currently a non-executive on the Board. He was also nominated as a National Business Awards' 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year and is a regular speaker at industry events.

• Rupert Bryant

  Chief Operating Officer

  Rupert joined Web Africa in 2003 as the second staff member and assisted Matthew in building the company to where it is today. His ambition and results-orientated level headedness have been invaluable assets and key drivers in the company's success.

  Prior to Web Africa, Rupert ran his own web solutions business specialising in web development and hosting and has accumulated 10 years of experience in the IT industry.

  An avid mixed martial arts fan, and a currently undefeated amateur competitor, Rupert also holds his Western Province colours in submission wrestling.

• Garron Boshoff

  Chief Financial Officer

  Chartered Accountant (SA)

  Garron joined Web Africa in 2009 and is responsible for the company's financial strategy and day-to-day financial and accounting operations.

  After completing his auditing articles with Ernst & Young in 1999, Garron worked in London at Deutsche Bank Global Equities. On his return to South Africa in 2002, he gained extensive experience in various listed and unlisted financial services companies.

  Garron enjoys spending his free time outdoors, either cycling, surfing or sailing. He also spends as much time as possible with his family.

• Nick Zografos

  Non-Executive Director (Chairman)

  Chartered Accountant (SA)

  Nick spent five years in financial and executive roles in the telecommunications sector in South Africa after completing his auditing articles with Price Waterhouse in 1994.

  In 2000, he founded Smartcom - a cellular service provider that formed a subsidiary of Vodacom - where he currently holds the position of Chief Executive Officer.

  Nick enjoys cycling, watching sport and spending as much time as possible with his family.

• Bertus Levendal

  Non-Executive Director

  After completing degrees in Accounting and Financial Management at Rand Afrikaans University, Bertus started his career within the Ford and BMW divisions of Barlow Motor Investments.

  In 1997 Bertus joined Supercall Cellular as Financial Manager where he got introduced to the dynamic world of mobile communications.

  In 2000 he was a founding member of Smartcom, where he up to today serves as Director.

  Bertus enjoys gardening, walking, and spending as much time as possible with his family.

Passionate? Motivated? Enjoy challenges?

We are an innovative, young and dynamic IT company, currently expanding and seeking skilled individuals.

As a market leader in our industry, we aim to provide an exceptional and stimulating workplace. We offer a challenging, friendly and rewarding environment. Over and above our staff performance incentives we offer comprehensive benefits that include the following:

• Medical aid
• Retirement annuity
• Daily breakfast and lunch
• Staff gym and grappling room
• Entertainment area equipped with bar, pool table, table-tennis, foosball, table-hockey, HUGE screen TV and game consoles
• Informal work environment

Remuneration is market/skills/experience-related and all positions are permanent, unless otherwise indicated.

Interested parties please send your CV/bio/portfolio or get in touch with us at: careers@webafrica.co.za and indicate the position you are applying for.

Available Positions:

Web Africa has a broad range of customers across multiple industries from banking to mining and retail. Some of our customers include:

We take great pride in our offices and provide many amenities and luxuries for our committed teams to ensure a relaxed, vibrant and productive working environment.

At lunch time you will often find staff in the games room playing foosball, chatting over a cup of hot coffee, playing pool or even rocking out to Guitar Hero!

As a young growing company, we are constantly striving to improve. Staff are encouraged to interact, give ideas and share information on their work,where they also get a chance to get to know each other better and equip themselves for the future.

The success and growth we have experienced would not have been achievable without aligning ourselves with the following high quality vendors, operating both locally and abroad:

Web Africa understands the incredibly important role that technology has to play in community development, and the importance of quality internet service provision in fostering education in South Africa

Our aim is to utilize our expertise and experience to improve internet access and services across the country, starting in our home province and expanding well beyond that in future.

To that aim, Web Africa, in conjunction with the Western Cape Education Department, has invested in sponsoring internet access to many previously disadvantaged schools, providing all-in-one ADSL access through our DSL Complete product range.

Web Africa's dedicated and hard-working team hope that this contribution will help a whole new generation of learners bridge the digital divide, empowering them to be successful in an increasingly internet-focused world.

Web Africa is an ISP that exists for the customer. We strive to deliver the best experience possible at affordable rates with the view to build lasting relationships with all stakeholders, from staff to customers, while delivering consistent value and simplifying the online experience intelligently and intuitively - smart made simple.

We pride ourselves in the use of the best technology available. From systems built in-house by our talented development team, to the expertly calibrated hardware. Through automation from our systems we improve the speed and manner at which business takes place, allowing us to provide service as promptly as possible. All while reducing costs.

Realising the customer is paramount, we have aligned every process and action we engage accordingly. From our 24/7 support to our wide range of Internet services, our systems and procedures have been built to provide comprehensive flexibility and ease of use in an effort to intuitively empower customers.

Throughout operation Web Africa has won numerous awards and accolades and has reached numerous important milestones, the most notable being:

2009

• Smartcom consortium invests in Web Africa.
• Web Africa moves to Teraco, South Africa's first carrier neutral data center.
• Web Africa client base grows to 25,000 active customers.
• Web Africa acquires Frogfoot client base.
• Web Africa grows to the 2nd largest web hosting provider in South Africa based on the number of active domains.

2008

• Web Africa opens an additional presence in Johannesburg, launching a branch in Midrand and providing support to those companies looking for a local presence.
• Web Africa launches DSL Groups (linkage), an ADSL solution tailored for large corporations and multi-branch businesses.

2007

• Web Africa wins the MyBroadband People's Choice Award for best ADSL Service provider for the 2nd year a row and introduces additional ADSL services for corporate customers.
• Web Africa also grows to the 3rd largest hosting provider in South Africa based on the number of active domains.

2006

• Web Africa wins the MyBroadband People's Choice Award for best ADSL Service Provider in 2006. This award is given to the ISP voted by the people as offering the best price, best quality of service and being the most focused on the customer.
• Web Africa is also named one of the Top 50 ICTe companies in South Africa for 2006.

2005

• Web Africa enters the broadband market as an ADSL reseller, being a market leader as the first to offer advanced features such as DSL Secure for preventing unwanted bandwidth theft and pre-paid ADSL with usage rollover, systems that many other providers for the next 3 years still struggle to provide.

2004

• Web Africa launches an incredibly successful range of reseller services to fill the gap in the wholesale market.
• Entering this market proves to be highly successful and is seen as one of the best in the country.

FreeZone represents an area within our network where any usage generated, is not deducted from your available bandwidth. We are proud to provide our users with this unique feature, which will result in significant bandwidth savings. Users will be able to view their regular traffic, as well as the separate FreeZone savings, via the DSL Console.

This value added service, is applicable to Web Africa ADSL subscribers only and sites and services that are applicable will clearly display the logo above. To make use of the service, you will need to have bandwidth available on your Web Africa ADSL account. This means that even though the FreeZone does not deduct from your bandwidth allocation, you won't be able to utilize it with an account in the capped status.

One of the Web Africa sites that is currently a FreeZone area is our Gaming Site: WAGE. This includes a section for hosted games as well as any content downloaded from the media section.

Coming soon for resellers!

Web Africa Networks PTY Ltd. seeks to interconnect its IP network with other Internet backbone providers on a settlement-free basis when such interconnection provides benefits to WebAfrica and its customers.
WebAfrica Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs). AS36943 is available for public peering

Requests for peering with Web Africa IP networks are handled on an individual-case basis. An ISP seeking peering with AS36943 should submit its request in writing, providing a description of its network including such information as:

1. whether it has a country or regional network
2. if regional, which regions are served
3. in which exchange points the ISP has a presence
4. a list of autonomous system numbers and prefixes served
5. a description of the type of traffic carried by the network.

For each network with which a provider is or wishes to be interconnected as a peer:

• Peer must have a professionally managed 24x7 NOC. Peer must agree to repair or otherwise remedy any problems within a reasonable timeframe. Peer must also agree to actively cooperate to resolve security incidents, denial of service attacks, and other operational problems.
• Peer must abide by the following routing policy:
  1. No transit or third party routes are to be announced; all routes exchanged must be peer's and peer’s customers' routes.
  2. Peer must filter route announcements from its customers by prefix.
  3. Neither party shall abuse the peering relationship by engaging in activities such as but not limited to: pointing a default route at the other or otherwise forwarding.
  traffic for destinations not explicitly advertised, resetting next-hop, selling or giving next-hop to others
• Peer must be financially stable.

Meeting the peering guidelines set forth herein is not a guarantee that a peering relationship with Web Africa will be established. Web Africa shall evaluate a number of business factors and reserves the right not to enter into a peering agreement with an otherwise qualified applicant. Existing peers of AS36943 will have their peering status reviewed periodically to ensure joint capacity planning and to ensure that all criteria continue to be met. Web Africa reserves the right to terminate peering, upon a notice period as determined by the parties' agreement, with peers who do not meet the criteria described above. Periodic review of the policies contained here will be conducted to ensure that the criteria and eligibility requirements are consistent with Web Africa’s business needs. Web Africa may modify this settlement-free peering policy at any time.