Lebelo Capital Investment principles
Our investment philosophy is to become a long-term investor in the businesses that we partner with, adding value to and growing our partners. Through our active involvement in the investments, we strive to accelerate growth and enhance profitability by leveraging off our extensive contact networks and contributing with our financial and structuring expertise in the respective businesses.
Our Values
Transparency, sound corporate governance and ethics
Long-lasting and value adding partnerships
Broad-based beneficiaries – desire to have a social impact
Our investment philosophy has developed around the following key objectives that we strive for in all our investments:
- Create long term wealth for all our stakeholders
- Provide capital investment opportunities to grow our investments and their businesses
- Maintain sound corporate governance and business practices and the highest commitment to ethical behaviour
- Play an active value-adding operational role in all our investments and contribute to and influence business processes
- Develop the entrepreneurial culture in our country and in all our investments to ensure a positive footprint in the communities we invest in
- Be open and transparent in our reporting to all our stakeholders
Our investment focus
Our investment focus is primarily within the following industry sectors although we remain flexible to explore ad-hoc opportunities in alternative sectors from time-to-time:
Infrastructure Development
Financial Services
ICT
Healthcare
Our general Investment Criteria
In evaluating potential investment opportunities, we generally seek the following characteristics in our partner businesses:
- Profitable track record with potential for sustainable growth
- Minimum EBITDA of R10 - R20 million per annum
- Capability of generating strong cash flows
- Strong and experienced management teams with strategic vision to create value
Our current investments
King Civil Engineering Contractors
King Civil Engineering Contractors - King Civil is a leading national civil construction company successfully delivering multi-disciplinary projects across South Africa since 1982. King Civil has completed over 260 projects valued over more than R1.5 billion for public and private sector clients. Annual turnover exceeds R300 million. King Civil employ in excess of 300 employees, the majority of whom are previously disadvantaged individuals across all employment profiles within King Civil.
In addition to extensive civil engineering capabilities, the business has controlling interests in Kumkani Geotechnical (Pty) Ltd and Imex Steel (Pty) Ltd.
Kumkani Geotechnical is a specialist pipejacking and lateral support contractor with extensive technical and operational experience and capacity.
Imex Steel supplies large volumes of selected steel products to domestic manufacturers for consumption nationally or for export markets.
