Prosperity

Leveraging the capital of our investing families and time-tested principles of free enterprise, we are increasing prosperity in the African continent. Our portfolio companies export in excess of $60 million of product from Africa to over 30 countries across the globe on an annual basis.

Our investments have created or sustained over 5,600 jobs and financial wellbeing to over 45,000 people. The “second-level” economic effects of our investments create, depending on the industries where we invest, up to 3.9 unskilled and 1.8 skilled jobs per $50,000 invested.  Unskilled jobs often secure food security and access to the formal economy; skilled jobs, on the other hand, support economic development, grow the tax base and foster economic freedom.

In creating jobs directly in our portfolio, and creating the economic conditions that support the creation of secondary unskilled and skilled work opportunities and jobs, we are striking at the core of the stubborn crisis of joblessness in South Africa and Lesotho where approximately one-third of the population of both countries are unemployed and an even higher youth unemployment. Unskilled jobs often secure livelihoods and food security for the poor or allow people to enter the formal economy from where they can develop skills to enhance the work opportunities available to them as they progress. Skilled jobs in these economies are also very important, because as such jobs grow in number, they increasingly support diversified and sustainable economic development, grow the tax base and allow for greater economic freedom in the workforce.