Afrihost and Webafrica are emerging as the two biggest winners in South Africa’s Internet service provider market.
Therefore, it is unsurprising that there is a lot of consolidation in the market as ISPs try to gain an advantage. Afrihost gave the Axxess management team, which maintained a minority shareholding, the freedom to continue doing what made them successful. This worked exceptionally well. These two fibre ISPs have been showing strong growth over the past few years, making them logical additions to the Afrihost stable.
Former Webafrica CEO Tim Wyatt-Gunning told MyBroadband at the time that the ISP had not been sold and that “the owners of Webafrica remain the same in all aspects”. “Mweb is the largest fibre-to-the-home Internet service provider in the market, and it accelerates our growth,” Nourse said.