Case Study: AFGRI (South Africa’s leading agricultural services group) achieves watertight email compliance and eDiscovery readiness with Mimecast

Legislation mandates email archiving with flawless time registration stamp

AFGRI is a JSE‑listed, BEE agricultural services group operating across South Africa with hundreds of sites and over 1,500 staff. A corporate rebrand that required a second set of email addresses coincided with new legislation mandating email archiving and evidentiary standards, leaving AFGRI exposed unless it could prove forensic authenticity and a clear chain of custody for every email.

AFGRI chose Mimecast’s hosted email security and archiving service to provide airtight timestamps, searchable archives and cloud‑delivered spam and virus protection. The rollout cut spam by about 70%, eliminated internal licensing and many email management costs, sped eDiscovery and improved compliance, substantially reducing litigation risk and giving the company greater evidentiary confidence.

AFGRI

Morne de Klerk

Group IT: Operations and Security Manager