Introduction

Bantu Investment Holdings is an investment and business development vehicle established in 2007.

Our main focus is investments. We identify, screen and qualify potential opportunities and invest in those meeting our strategic and tactical objectives.

We specialise in the following sectors:

• Franchising;
• Mining and Energy;
• Infrastructure and property development;
• Business Tourism;
• Technology and Health.

Our secondary objective is to identify and facilitate the execution of investments and business opportunities by forming strategic partnerships and bringing together individuals, businesses, public sector and private sector within the African continent and the rest of the world.

Our competitive advantage is our knowlege of key African markets and all their dynamics including the political, economic and legal systems.

Bantu Investment Holdings is an associate and the international arm of Nehawu Investment Holdings. It has headquarters in Sandton, Johannesburg (South Africa) and other regional offices in Kinshasa (DRC) and Accra (Ghana).

About NIH

Nehawu Investment Holdings (“NIH”) is an investment holding business that was established in 1997 on behalf of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU). The Union has about 250,000 members, the majority of which are employed in the civil service and comprise mostly officials and workers in the Education, Health and Public Works departments. At least 50% of the members are women.

In setting up NIH, a trust was established as a sole shareholder in the business. This trust is a union controlled trust, with the trustees being the National Officer Bearers of the Union and the Chairperson of NIH.

In terms of the trust deed, the investment company's over-riding mission is to maximise the benefits to its ultimate beneficiary i.e. the union membership. Over the years this has trickled down through bursaries.

The vision is to achieve economic empowerment of NEHAWU and its members by strategically investing in enterprises which contribute towards the deepening of South Africa's socio-economic transformation and realising the union's vision of economic emancipation and equality.