Afrigator Internet (Pty) Ltd today announced that its existing shareholders intend purchasing back the majority shareholding of the company currently held by MIH Internet Africa (Pty) Ltd. MIH Internet Africa have been shareholders in the company since September 2008.
Justin Hartman, Managing Director of the company said, “This deal effectively puts full control back into the [...]

ReadWriteWeb has given Afrigator an honourable mention in the Top 10 RSS and Syndication Products of 2008 list.
This Top 10 list features FriendFeed, Google Reader, Twitterfeed, Feedburner and Yahoo! Pipes. Here’s what RRW had to say about us.

Finally, we love African social media aggregator Afrigator – it’s a great way to learn about what’s happening all over the continent and it’s a [...]

This almost went unnoticed but on Friday Afrigator was voted one of the Top 10 International Products for 2008 by ReadWriteWeb. This is obviously a massive accolade for all of us involved in Afrigator and at times like this I’m left perplexed at how a small garage startup like Afrigator has managed to gain such credibility outside the borders [...]

It looks like things are picking up for us here at the Afrigator office.
Last week I got to work only to find that a camera crew from FinWeek had taken over the office and was set and ready to shoot us. Well, you know what I mean.

The article has been written and published and this morning we [...]

We’ve been holding off on the big news but we can finally confirm today that MIH Print Africa (Pty) Ltd, a subsidiary of Naspers Limited, has secured a majority stake in Afrigator Internet (Pty) Ltd.
We could not have chosen a better partner in MIH Print Africa as their strategy for Africa aligns perfectly with ours [...]

A while back we registered Afrigator on Vator.tv’s Demand Media Challenge. For those of you who don’t know what the Demand Media Challenge is all about here’s a quick synopsis of the competition.

Demand Media, which has raised $320 million, is on a quest to find the top next-generation new media companies and has partnered with Vator.tv [...]

Afrigator’s beta launch has received some great coverage lately in the press and being featured onRead/WriteWeb doesn’t happen every day so we thought we should write a blog post about it!
Marshall Kirkpatrick is a Lead Author at Read/WriteWeb and was previously a lead blogger at TechCrunch and he’s written a glowing review on the Afrigator beta [...]