Private equity and venture capital industry pledges over 1 100 hours to assist SMMEs

April 7, 2020

April 07 2020: South African businesses are facing the battle of their lives. To ensure as many companies as possible survive the COVID-19 economic crisis, the Southern African Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SAVCA) has launched a small, medium and micro enterprise (SMME) support platform in collaboration with is membership network, which consist of…

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PRESS RELEASE: Achievement of commercial operations of Sindila: a 5.25mw run-of-river hydropower project in western Uganda

November 22, 2019

Metier is pleased to announce that start of commercial operations was achieved in 18 April 2019 for the 5.25MW Sindila hydropower project (“Sindila”) in which Metier, via its Lereko Metier Sustainable Capital fund (“LMSC”), is the majority investor. Sindila is located in the Bundibugyo District of western Uganda and is owned by a special purpose…

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“AFSIC – Investing in Africa” 2020 confirms over 300 excellent speakers.

November 19, 2019

AFSIC – Investing in Africa, scheduled for May 5th -7th 2020 in London, has this month confirmed over 300 speakers including a huge range of Africa’s most important investors, dealmakers and business leaders. AFSIC 2020 is focused on profiling Africa’s most exciting investment opportunities and creating multiple business and networking opportunities for investors. With ABSA…

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SAVCA in the media

December 15, 2016

SAVCA Media Releases SAVCA MEDIA RELEASE: The search for alpha to continue in 2017 — In their search for returns, global investors ratchet up their allocations to private equity SAVCA Media Release: A robust year for Southern African private equity in 2016 SAVCA Media Release: Private equity playing growing role in funding Africa’s infrastructure gap…

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SAVCA 2016 TRAINING

December 15, 2016

SAVCA-GIBS Foundation Programme in Private Equity             SAVCA One-Day Training Programme in Private Equity Fund Accounting and Administration SAVCA-GIBS Advanced Programme in Private Equity in Value Addition

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SAVCA Newsletter feature: Q&A with The Abraaj Group

December 2, 2016

In this week’s newsletter Q&A feature SAVCA speaks to Sandeep Khanna (SK), Managing Director at The Abraaj Group: Tell us about your deal activity and /or investment strategy over the past year. SK: The Abraaj group, over a 25-year history of investing in the continent, has developed an investment approach that is purpose-built for investing…

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Vacancy: CrossBoundary – South Africa Principal

October 28, 2016

The Principal will lead our new team in Johannesburg. He or she will actively contribute to a powerful intervention that has the potential for significant positive impact on investment into Southern Africa, in addition to building CrossBoundary’s long-term presence in the region. The Principal will be responsible for managing an investment facilitation team and leading…

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Vacancy: Musa Group Analyst Programme (MAP)

September 29, 2016

Musa Group is excited to announce the launch of its analyst programme in January 2017. We are currently looking to recruit a few talented individuals to join our programme and work with our advisory teams, evaluating opportunities and working within our direct investment companies. This two-year programme is designed to give participants intensive, broad-based experience…

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SAVCA Newsletter Feature: Q&A with Convergence Partners

September 5, 2016

ICT infrastructure-focused private equity manager Convergence Partners is pursuing new initiatives and transactions, including exciting deals in the tech space. SAVCA speaks to Chairman and Founding Partner at Convergence Partners, Andile Ngcaba (AN). What have been some of the interesting deals you’ve been working on in the past 12 months? AN: We have continued to…

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