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Batsamayi

Type: Private Industry: Computer Software Founded: October 2013 Founders: Yongama Dilima, Makhaka Dolomba, Edison Machitje, Cinga P. Nyangintsimbi Headquarters: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Campus, Port Elizabeth, South Africa Key people: Cinga P. Nyangintsimbi

Batsamayi is a South African based technology company, headquartered in Port Elizabeth, which develops, manufactures, licenses and sells computer software and services. Among the software products it has produced, are Impilo (an online patient EHR system developed for Impilo Digital), Maspala and iSEEYOU.

Batsamayi was founded by Yongama Dilima, Makhaka Dolomba, Edison Machitje and Cinga P. Nyangintsimbi, in October of 2013. The company was founded as the four final year, software development students of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU), School of Information and Communication Technology (SICT), formed a team as part of their 3rd year (National Diploma IT) project. Batsamayi was officially registered as a privately trading company, with the CIPC, on the 7th of July 2015, after their project titled "iSEEYOU", received high ratings during the 2014 judging sessions of the 3rd year SICT projects at the NMMU and was ranked as one of the top 12 entries in the 2015 Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition.

In August of the year 2015, SaturdayGig (a subsidiary of Batsamayi) was started as a project to provide SICT students of the NMMU with experience in their field of study, by affording them the opportunity to work in teams that would produce systems, which would go into a live consumer environment. The members of SaturdayGig (Edison Machitje, Lebohang Makibinyane, Peiri Malahlela, Briner Monama, Msimelelo Mawaba, Cinga P. Nyangintsimbi, Simthembile Nogqala and Timothy Speckman) became the official members and registered directors of Batsamayi?

SaturdayGig continues to run and offers all students of the NMMU the opportunity to attend the meetings every Saturday and witness their computer software ideas come to life.

Batsamayi is a word of Sotho origin, meaning the movers. This name was given with the vision of upholding the company's slogan (meeting the future halfway).