TrustList ranks 110 companies in South Africa across 7 categories. The biggest lists are IT service providers (67), web hosting companies (14) and digital marketing companies (8). Each list below is the top of its full ranking, ordered by rating, review volume and listing quality; no one pays for a position.
The businesses here list work in Africa, Cape Town, Middle East and London. 103 of them have written a profile you can read before you get in touch.
What to check before you hire in South Africa
Which legal entity signs, and which country's courts the contract names — the office you met may not be the company on the invoice
Where your data will actually be stored and processed, and whether that is allowed under the rules you are bound by
Who owns the work: intellectual property assignment has to be valid under the law of the supplier's country, not only yours
The overlap in working hours you will really get, and who is reachable when something breaks at your end of the day
The currency you are billed in, who carries the exchange-rate movement, and what the payment fees add
References from clients in your own market, not only in the supplier's — the ones who had to manage the distance
How the relationship ends: notice, handover of code, credentials and data, and what happens to staff assigned to you
Each section below is the top of that category's own ranking for South Africa, so the two pages can never disagree. At the top of the largest of them, IT service providers, right now: Soda Social Media, Webillism Web Design Company and Rogerwilco.
We are the listeners, the speakers, do’ ers and seekers. Our philosophy of immersed social means that we don’t just participate, we absorb and initiate.
Mobile App Development · Social Media Marketing · Search Engine Optimization
We’re the Digital Customer Experience Specialists, who partner with brands and businesses to create human connections through digital touchpoints. Engaging. Curious. Ambitious.
Web Design · Web Development · IT Services · Also in Ivory Coast and Ghana
Equinix, Inc. of Redwood City operates colocation data centres and interconnection services for enterprises, network operators and cloud providers worldwide.
Managed WordPress hosting · Bare metal servers · Shared hosting · Also in Ghana and Africa
Aveshost sells shared, WordPress, VPS, dedicated and bare-metal hosting and domains, with country-specific VPS offers for customers in Ghana, South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya.
Managed WordPress hosting · Shared hosting · Domain registration · Also in Fleet and Africa
HostNowNow, founded in Lagos, sells Naira-priced shared hosting on Microsoft Azure, managed WordPress, email, SSL and domains for businesses in Africa.
Managed WordPress hosting · Web Design · React Native · Also in Africa
Insly Host (Pty) Ltd, a South African company, sells web hosting, managed WordPress, VPS, dedicated servers, domains and business email under one login.
Abangani Media is a web and software developer in South Africa that provides offshore IT teams to overseas companies, most of them in the Netherlands, where its founder comes from.
Advertising · Creative · Branding · Also in Cape Town, South Africa and Cape Town
Elevation Design is a creative agency in Cape Town, South Africa. It serves businesses locally and abroad, and reports more than 22 years of experience in branding and design.
GL Events south africa: The Leading Exhibitions and Events Solutions Provider Complete solutions for Exhibition and Trade show construction, from design, through to project…
ICExpress is a proudly South African company whose mission is to become one of world’s most admired courier companies and we are on track to becoming just that We are your trusted…
Financial Services · Internet · Partners · Also in Lagos and Middle East
Convergence Partners is an investment firm that specialises in information and communications technology in Africa. It says it looks for both financial and social returns.
When you decide you want to make investments of any kind, you need to understand having a balance between risky investments and more stable investments if you are looking to have a…
All Seasons Capital Management is an independent investment management firm focused on emerging and frontier markets, particularly Asia and frontier Africa.
The order is earned: ratings, verified reviews and listing quality decide it, and nobody can pay to move up. There are two ways to stand out, and each one says what it is.
A position here is earned, never bought. It is worked out from what a firm publishes and what has been verified about it:
Profile completeness: the details a buyer needs to judge a firm — what it does, who it serves, how it prices, who it has worked for
Earned trust: verification, awards and the other checks a firm has actually passed
Client reviews, where they exist: the rating is smoothed, so one five-star review cannot outrank a firm with a hundred good ones, and volume counts with diminishing returns
Be clear about the third one: client reviews are still rare across this catalogue, so on most lists today the order is set by the first two. A firm near the top is the best-documented and best-verified one we hold, which is not the same claim as the best one to hire. Use the list to build a shortlist, then check the firms yourself.
No firm can pay for a position. Sponsored listings are labelled and shown apart from this list. How rankings work