ABOUT THE COMPANY
Mputsu Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd is a South African company with diverse interests in business. The adheres to a strict investment policy and invests in assets over which it has management control or an ability to exert an influence.
The Group’s investments aim to perform consistently well over the years to come, with a goal to accumulating more towards the strength of the balance sheet. This will allow the company to make several acquisitions and to enter into joint arrangements with strong partners. During our first few years of operation, it would substantially grow its balance sheet, enabling it to procure “on-balance-sheet” funding for investments in selected transactions. This would mark a fundamental shift in the group’s philosophy in a move towards longer-term strategic investments.
MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR
Mputsu Construction persists to grow from strength to strength and aim to remain a preferred supplier in the construction industry in South Africa. Reliability and a strong background of in-country experience maintain Mputsu Construction’s competitive advantage. We focus on cost-effective solutions and efficiency at a local level, always willing and able to respond to the needs of our customers.
“We are here to serve you and be your partner in progress.”
– Thabo Molamu
OUR EXECUTIVES
Thabo Molamu
Director
Thabo Molamu is the founder of Mputsu Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd. He has been extremely instrumental in the building-up of this company. He has wealth of experience in the business fraternity.
Mmatsatsi Sefalafala
Managing Director
Mmatsatsi holds an LLB degree at the University of Witwatersrand. She was admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa in 2007. She has been practicing law from her admission for over 10 years. She brings a wealth of experience in company management and corporate governance. She is responsible for formulating and successfully implementing company policies.
CORPORATE STRATEGY
It would become important to reposition the company from the current South African black business trademark perspective, to move away from the identification of our company with an arrangement set by fastidious elites in the society “tenderpreneurs” and to create depth and leadership to carry the organisation into the future.
This means mobilising the Group’s various divisions under one mother brand and maximising synergies between these divisions. The new strategy is about learning how to “hunt as a pack” and being more nimble and agile to achieve a more solidified platform that will enable the company to scale up.
VISION BEYOND BEE
The new strategy calls for positioning MIH beyond the BEE era and to ensure that the Group evolves into a sustainable and enduring institution – in other words, to achieve an institutionalisation of the Group that will position it as a blue chip in the future business landscape. Moving into the next growth phase – into the era of post-BEE – MIH would be transformed from a pre-eminent service group into diversified industrial and resources group.
The current portfolio of businesses has thus been structured into four main pillars, i.e. RAIL Transport, Mining, Construction, and the Aquarium Development & Management pillars respectively.
More sectors will be added in the future as the Group makes new investments in strategic areas in the economy. Already, an embryonic fifth pillar – resources – is in the making, with the Group beginning to consider investing in the mining of platinum and coal.
OUR VALUES AND ETHOS
Mputsu Investment Holdings, an aspirant leading investment Group created in 2012 by Mr. Thabo Molamu.
The ethos of the founder – his identification with the poorest of the poor and his commitment to the social and economic transformation of the country – is the strand of corporate DNA that runs through the MIH Group.
In its strategic direction, MIH will not alter the underlying ethos and value system of the Group – indeed, it will serve to strengthen it – and ensure that it is carried through institutionally into the era beyond BEE.
MIH remains committed to the principled investment code of not investing in businesses that are harmful to people and the environment. The Group will not, for example, invest in businesses that involve gambling, alcohol, micro-lending and armaments.
FOCUSED AND INTEGRATED APPROACH
MIH is dedicated to implementing a programme of social and economic change throughout the Group, through a focused and integrated BEE scorecard, which includes the following elements:
- Ownership,
- Management and control,
- Training and skills development,
- Procurement,
- Access to finance,
- Entrepreneurial development,
- Corporate social responsibility.
Entrenched in the ethos, values and philosophy of MIH is a firm belief that for BEE to be effective and sustainable, it must be embraced fully by all participants. It must be accompanied by a firm understanding and appreciation that it needs to be integrated into all spheres of the organisation.