I don't think Blizzard, the company, both EU and US, including the head of emerging markets, will ever acknowledge South Africa's audience individually, think there are too many others with the same requests.

To our favor, I have to say, we have a metric TON of underwater fiber crossing Cape Town, our international connections are world class at this stage. http://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/ In terms of infrastructure, in about 5 years, we won't be similar to small EU countries, we will surpass a lot of them. Cape Town has always been a very strategic location, for hundreds of years it was used as a critical trade route! These days its used as a critical undersea cable point.

If you would want Battlenet Africa made a reality, you need to contact the head of Emerging markets in EU, last time I checked, it was a French gentleman. Then you will need to get him in touch with Do Gaming, Telkom's (one of the largest telecoms company in Africa/EU) gaming division. They have CAAS facilities which would put most EU hosts to shame, trust me. I've spoken to chaps from Do Gaming, and proposed hosting Blizzard services, they were all for it, anything to advance Africa's gaming scene, its there, its a R1.3 Billion (US $130 000 000) a year industry down here already, and showing very steady growth year on year.

I understand everyone's obsession with the Chinese markets, but in terms of gaming, culturally, they demand free to play models, they are just not used to paying for entertainment, I think securing Africa via South Africa early on could possibly produce some really pleasant surprises for companies like Blizzard, and considering the minimal investment in resources required, I'd say za.battle.net's worth the shot.