Productive investment

Makwande Capital is a private equity firm genuinely interested in development economics through social and impact investments in South Africa.

 

 

Investment Measures

INVESTMENT STRATEGY

We are inspired by a holistic and inclusive perspective to drive growth by addressing food security and infrastructure investment, primarily in South Africa and selected African countries.  

Makwande will achieve these objectives by making direct and indirect leveraged investments in its target portofolio companies as per mandate of each Fund guided investment into productive goo sustainable activity. Makwande Agri-Impact Fund 

The fund is targeting three segments namely; livestock, animal healthcare/protein, agrochemicals, forestry, citrus and agro-processing . 

 

Livestock

The funds objective is to create a dominant livestock and agribusiness services provider that will provide: 

  • Provide equitable development in livestock value chain for the rural economy and economic development;
  • Benefit from increase economies of scale;
  • Explore various exit options including an IPO
The Fund will achieve these objectives by making  direct and indirect geared investment in agribusiness value chain.

Animal healthcare/protein

The fund aims to grow the emerging and commercial farming sector and offer funders and stock owners a viable and sustainable cost saving alternative.

The Fund strategy is to build vertically integration business.

 

Agro-processing

The Funds objective is to create a coordinated mechanisation that will provide:

  • Leverage and sustainable development to improve agro-processing to revitalise the rural economy and economic development;
  • Benefit from increased economies of scale.
The fund will achieve these objectives by making direct and indirect geared investment in brown-field projects.

Socio-Economic Infrastructure 

The Funds objective is to generated risked adjusted returns over the long-term, through a broader transformational infrastructure that will provide:

  • Increased Growth Domestic Product
  • Improved infrastructure gap
  • Improved quality of life
  • Youth employment 
  •  University Students integrated programme 
the fund will achieve these objective by making direct and indirect geared investments in:
  • Greenfield investment that require: Design, Financing, Building and Operating. These infrastructure investments are more prevalent in emerging markets. similarly;
  • Brownfield investments essentially refer to existing, lack of maintenance acing assets that require rehabilitation, and are sometimes referred to as “mature infrastructure”
These objective can be measured by improved: 
  • Gender equality
  • Community & social cohesion
  • University students integrated programs
  • Human health 
  • Environment health.