Two founders started Pace Online in 2012 with no clients and no outside investment. Thirteen years later we ship software for South African ports, municipalities, parastatals and schools — and own a portfolio of African products.
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Years building African software
Two founders started Pace Online in 2012 with no clients and no outside investment. Thirteen years later we ship software for South African ports, municipalities, parastatals and schools — and own a portfolio of African products.
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Years building African software
Tallied by the Stevedoring App across three Transnet ports.
Major South African clients since 2015 — many still with us.
The Stevedoring App, SunSeek, Uniflo, Govermate and TrueTally.
James Zwane and Marlon Murahwa started Pace Online in 2012 — two schoolmates with no clients and no outside investment, answering a question nobody in South African ICT was answering well: who builds the software that takes analog operations online? The early years were one sale at a time — PHP websites, Joomla portals and custom builds won by being responsive when bigger agencies weren't.
In 2015 Enterprise iLembe became our first major client; they are still with us today. From there we went into the field — digitising paper-based systems, building municipal extranets and SMS/WhatsApp services that reached hundreds of thousands of residents — then into mobile apps, government panels and our own products. What started as two people building websites in Kempton Park is now an African Software OEM with five products in market.
2012–2016: PHP and Joomla websites, brand identity and portals, won one client at a time. Enterprise iLembe came in 2015 — and stayed.
We went into the field and put paper online — municipal extranets, council agendas and SMS/WhatsApp that reached half a million residents.
Offline-first Flutter apps for the African field — iSimangaliso, NIHSS, Dube TradePort and the Stevedoring App.
Appointed to the PIC and National Treasury panels, we packaged a decade of work into our own products — an African Software OEM.
Tell us about the work. We design, build and run software for government, parastatals and private business across South Africa — and we answer fast.
Building HQ, Thornhill Office Park,
94 Bekker Road Vorna Valley,
Midrand, 1686 South Africa
