"I'd rather build ten businesses one great website than sell one business ten things it doesn't need."
— Zander Pretorius, founder
Stilbaai · Western Cape · est. May 2026
Hi, I'm Zander.
I'm 18, I live in Stilbaai, and I started Pretorius Digital in May 2026 to do one thing well: build small businesses along the Garden Route the website they've been putting off.
I'm not an agency and I don't pretend to be one. There's no account manager, no call centre, no monthly report full of numbers that don't mean anything. It's just me — I take the brief, I build the site, and I'm the same person you message when you want something changed.
Small local businesses, not big-city clients.
Drive around Stilbaai and the towns near it and you'll find brilliant little businesses — cafés, salons, guest houses, restaurants — that have never had a website. They're on Facebook, maybe, and they rely on word of mouth. When a tourist or a new local goes looking for them online, there's nothing there.
That's the gap I care about. I'm not chasing corporate contracts in Cape Town. I want to help the business two streets over get found, look professional, and take bookings without paying agency prices to do it.
Modern tools, done properly.
I build with modern AI-assisted tools, and I'm honest about that — it's how a one-person business turns a proper website around in about a week instead of a month. But fast doesn't mean sloppy.
I direct every design decision, check every page on a real phone, and I don't hand anything over until it's clean, quick and something I'd be proud to put my name on. The tools speed up the typing. The judgement, the care and the fixing are still mine — and you get the time savings as a lower price.
Let's build yours.
If you run a small business on the Garden Route and you're tired of not having a website, message me. I'll tell you honestly whether I can help.