Blogging in SA has really taken off with thousands of South Africans looking to their blogs to express themselves. Testament to this is the success of Amatomu.com which is responsible to sorting the SA blogosphere and Afrigator.com which indexed the thousands of blog post in a social media aggregator and directory.

Today I’m going to give you more info about South African blogging platforms, all of them being free to register. So I’m going to get this going:

iBlog.co.za

It’s supposed to be the largest blogging site in Africa because iBlog recently announced they’ve reached 8,000 bloggers. The platform is running WordPress and allows the user to customize it. Signing up is free and when you choose your username keep in mind that your blog will be something like this “http://username.iblog.co.za”. One thing I like about iBlog is the fact that the front page is more like a community and promotes the best articles.

Amagama

If you want to start your own blog as soon as possible, Amagama says you can do it in less than 3 minutes. I agree. Working on WordPress MU (multi user) Edition, Amagama is part of Mail & Guardian the guys that run the popular Amatomu.

Blogs.24.com

Another blogging platform from South Africa is blogs.24.com. They’re not using WordPress or Blogger, but a custom blogging platform. Signing up for a blog on 24.com is very easy and fast. They also have a community-like front page with most commented, most read and newly updated.

Blog247.co.za

For every South African that needs a blog to express themselves, Blog247.co.za guys are ready to offer one. You create your account, give it a name and then you’re ready to roll. They’re using WordPress MU edition.

MyDigitalLife

If you would like to blog on MyDigitalLife.co.za then you should become a “citizen”. It’s not hard and in a few minutes you would be ready to blog. From what I’ve seen it’s not that easy like using WordPress but believe me you won’t have a problem publishing your articles. These guys are covering more like tech/gadgets.

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MoFuse is a service that turns your website into a mobile website so that you can view it nicely on your cellphone. The company announced these days their MoFuse Grow service for blogs, that is using the same core software but is special for creating mobile blogs, resizes images or transcode outbound links among other features.

This sounds like a good idea but I’m not sure how many people will turn to it. If you had experience with them give us a quick note on MoFuse Grow.

By the way if you want to see how BandwidthBlog looks like (mobile optimized) check out the link.

If there were any Arabian, Hebrew and Persian bloggers out there that can’t do it properly because of the language, Blogger.com just announced that from January 17th it should be available to them, on their blogging platform.

Arabic, Persian and Hebrew languages are different from others mainly because you write from right to the left. It was hard work to flip the entire interface but my assumption is there will be people who will get their fingers on a keyboard and will start blogging.

If you’re one of them and want to change you can do it from the menu in your Dashboard.

For a Middle East country with a lot of communication boundaries it is a very good and easy tool to break them. It’s looking great and I think Blogger made the right choice. They are now supporting a total of 40 languages.

buzz.blogger.com

Web 2.0 blogging platform Profy announced the Alpha launch of their service today. Profy combines a WYSIWYG text editor with a feed reader and a social network. A dashboard on the start page shows your posting activity, feed items, reader’s comments on your blog, and instant messages from other Profy users. You can read your blog feeds, write posts, find out what other Profy bloggers and commenters are reading in their feed readers (like sharing in Google Reader). If you don’t have visual editing skills there are tons of templates and layouts you can choose to style your blog.

Profy’s vision is to provide single, comprehensive seamless access and friendly navigation for the many stages of the blogging process – news reading, sharing selected news stories with a group of readers, writing posts and publishing them, discussing posts with readers, and communicating with readers on other topics.

Profy will aim to compete with tools like Squarespace rather than WordPress or MoveableType.

Here are some of the most popular posts published on Bandwidth blog since its launch one year ago. Thank you all for reading. Happy Holidays… (;

South Africa’s top startups to watch (Was published in print)

Afrigator beta launched (Was picked up by ReadWriteWeb)

24.com launch Laaik.it social media aggregator (Breaking news)

The offices of todays internet companies (Reached the Digg homepage)

Microsoft wants Yahoo – $50 Bil (Our best rumour published of the year)

Just a heads up for all the bloggers out there. With an improved editor, image uploader, security features, and more. Nice polish added to already great blogging software. Just be sure your installed plugins are compatible.Visit the official WordPress site

For the best wordpress themes go to WordPressthemes.co.za