South African Internet

Entrepreneurs by
Greg Chiponda

published
by the

Web Institute of Southern Africa (Webisa)

www.webisa.za.org

under the
Southern African Internet Entrepreneurship Series
An Internet entrepreneur is an entrepreneur that applies innovation to create new businesses on the
Internet
1. Elon Musk (Paypal/Zip2 )
2. Mark Richard Shuttleworth -Thwate (digital certificates and internet security)
3. Andy Higgins (Bid or Buy)
4. Ronen Apteker/David Frankel - Internet Solutions (Internet Service Provider.)
5. Vinny Lingham-Yola, Inc (website building, publishing and hosting services)
6. Herman Heunis, (MXit's)
7. Robert Gumede -Gijima Asset Management
8. John Holdsworth - ECN Telecoms
9. Matthew Tagg, CEO, Web Africa
10. Pieter Streicher (Bulk SMS)
11. Jason Elk /Gerry da Silva(Zoopy)
12. Rudolph Muller (Mybroadband.co.za aka MyADSL)
13. Justin Hartman, co-founder of Afrigator,
14. Gareth Knight (Kindo.com, )
15. Vincent Maher/Nic Haralambous (Motribe)
16. Barbara Mallinson. (Obami.com)
17. Simon Crookall (Gumtree )

Greg Chiponda is a Zimbabwean Web Engineer by profession he is the CEO/Founder of the WebID
Group a web technoology company based in Pretoria, South Africa. Greg is a stronger beleiver in open
web standards, HTML5, CS3 and multimedia programming tools like SVG, SMIL and Timed Text. He
spends most of his spare time working on the Chaunga web browser and Chaunga platform.