Projects
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Adcock Allsopp Vos Property Empowerment Group
Droomland Boerdery, Northern Cape
Farm Debt
Restructuring and Redistribution Project
AGRI -IS Initiative
This initiative comprises an initiative that is in line with the Nepad policies relating to cross sector
collaboration of projects in Africa. The focus is on countries requiring
massive infrastructure repair and development following stabilization after
regional conflicts have been resolved. For the first time in Africa the agricultural
and civil engineering sector have pooled their resources to make things
happen in cohesive and sustainable manner. Crop insurance geared financing
linked to the best in satellite farm management data technology and carefully
selected farm management entities cover the production of diversified
crops in intensive, high critical mass projects servicing local and export
markets in high yield value added primary production. The massive Civil
Engineering generated facilities and equipment for land clearance and
preparation truly makes farming happen in the shortest space of time.
Add that muscle to the establishment of dams, canals, irrigation
infrastructure, roads, warehousing, pack-housing, value adding factories and
the related development of local markets and the picture begins to make the
kind of sense long wished for in Africa. This
is by far the most dramatic and meaningful
development in creating sustained markets and fighting poverty in Africa.
Needless to say the embassies of numerous African
countries have invited the initiative to deploy in their countries. Aid Agencies, the World Bank, FDI’s
and financiers are all exited. So are we!
Adcock Allsopp Vos Property Empowerment Group
The
development partner of AAVPEG has a proven track record with a critical mass of
some R 100 mil in respect of upper
class cluster housing developments in Johannesburg. This consultancy structured the management
shareholders and ancillary agreements as well as the web page (www.aavpeg.co.za) for the group and is also
mandated to raise finance for the upcoming projects. The critical mass of new
projects is expected to reach R 200 mil in 2004. Local as well as
foreign direct Investors and financiers are being considered. Property
management and sales also comprise divisions of AAVPEG. With the property
market set to persist for another 24 months, this entity comprises an excellent
investment for any FDI partner. Latest news is that this consultancy has just acquired letters of Intent in
respect of some $12 mil / R +/- 80 mil for this project. Project is now running
see www.aavpeg.co.za
Lifestone (Pty) Ltd
This
consultancy has been mandated to attend o the legal regime, marketing and
strategic planning for the current investors to the company. Lifestone (Pty)
Ltd supplies Namakwa Green
quartzitic sand stone to the building industry. According to the
latest geology reports the supply is estimated to last for some 200 years. The
deposit comprises the biggest in Southern Africa and is suitable for the
following products: -
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Tiles
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Table tops
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Tomb Stones
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Brick Stone
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Paving
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Driveways
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Counter tops
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Wall tiles
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Building Blocks
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Sculpture Slabs
This particular product is unique because it is so
unique, widely varied and so unusual that it has defied categorisation by any
geologist to date. As a result the deposit can produce product for an
incredibly wide range of applications. The
initial samples have attracted intense interest from marketers. This consultancy is currently attending to the
construction of the Shareholders Agreements for the first R 2 mil odd injection to the project as well as to the Joint Venture Agreement
for a partner wishing to form part of the value adding chain.
SA Road Tanker Project
The
project comprises of a group of highly skilled and
experienced individuals in the tanker construction business, collaborating to the ends of using tried and tested leading edge technology and
internationally acclaimed construction methods in a BEE
engineering enterprise for the construction
of raod tankers. The BEE aspect of this project is well established
as it pre-dates the new dispensation in South Africa by several years. This
will be the first BEE company producing and servicing standardised
road tankers by using a combination of manufacturing and testing technology
that will without a doubt position it as the the manufacturer
of highest quality in the entire SADC region. Exports to the SADC region, Nigeria, the UK and the EU
is on the cards. This project will plug a significant gap in export losses due
to the rationalisation of the tanker-container industry. Investors currently
engaged in negotiations comprise members of the Infrastructure Off take Program
under the auspices of the DTI, financiers
and quasi equity investors under the auspices of the IDC.
Nguni Project
This
project centres on the production and export of Nguni cattle, embryo’s, tanned hides and organic meat.
Some of the best Nguni herds and farmers in Southern Africa are being
structured into the project. An ancillary Nguni project is proposed for the
Zambezi Valley zone of Mozambique. Of all the agricultural projects handled
by this consultancy, this is the one with the best potential. Investors or
JV partners that will attend to the Tanning factory and abattoir aspects of the
project are being assessed at present. Nguni cattle are considered the most
profitable cattle in the world when just taking the fertility rates,
immunity to disease and weight to consumption ratios into account. This project
takes that profitability to hitherto undreamed of levels and heralds in a
completely new era and approach to stock farming in sub Saharan Africa
Group One Project
This project centres on mandates given to this consultancy by some 70
farmers along the Orange River in the far Northern Cape Province in South
Africa. The area comprises some of the best irrigation land South of the
equator. These farmers comprise a grouping that either rents or owns some 500
hectares of land in the area. They comprise a grouping that has separated
itself from those that have just wanted to ride the government’s gravy train in
public sector driver projects. Those renting land have collaborated to make
application for title, using the best Land reform senior advocate in the
country. As a result you will be dealing with experienced commercial farmers
who want to collaborate with purely private sector partners, financiers and
underwriters so as to further their development on purely commercial
basis. Their aims are to establish diversified short medium and
long-term crops on an intensive basis so as to create a large
critical mass that can justify intensive value adding infrastructure
that will target the export markets. For those partners that are unable
to raise finance this consultancy has finance secured by crop insurance in
place. Finance and investment offers in respect of value adding Infrastructure
development and operational expansion is also in the offing. A partner to
establish crops immediately on some 200 ha is sought. High yield crops in
niche markets such as in the oil extraction genre are enjoying
strong consideration at present. Any investor would be well positioned to
benefit from several spin offs including spin offs from failed or
failing government projects in the area. Other spin offs include training
grants, tax holidays for FDI’s and the like. Implement financing will be
needed and any entities in this field is welcome to contact the CEO of the
group on +27 731 5678 25. The groups’ web page appears under www.izak.co.za
select the tab market Group One. A Strategic Overview appears under the Group One page’s tab market related
Links. This project is currently
finalising off-take agreements
for several short medium and long-term crops.
Goodhouse Paprika project
This
project is in crisis because of undue and covert
government interference, gross abuses of human rights such as the right to
freedom of association, gross misappropriation of funds, mismanagement and
political intrigue typical of that set out in the tab market “Land reform”
on the web page www.izak.co.za. So
bad is the situation that the management of this project are unable to respond
to the demands of the farmers and their representative. Several media
reports have already ensued about this sad debacle. An offer was
made by this consultancy to take over the exposure to the Land Bank loan
on that part of the project that the members of Group One at Goodhouse was
involved in. However the present management are unable or unwilling to
do so and also unable or unwilling to place these farmers back in the
position prior to them being induced into this (ultimately government
controlled) as opposed to private sector project as represented to those
farmers. No doubt, a declarative order relating to land occupation, rights
and usage from the High Court will shortly ensue, as will the inevitable
transfer of title. This will no doubt form part of
the opportunities for the Group One Project.
Droomland Boerdery, Northern Cape
This project now forms part of Group One and is centred on some 110
ha of irrigation land along the Orange River in the Northern Cape. This
consultancy has structured the project into three entities, namely a property
rights trust, Infrastructure holding Corporation and management Company. Short
and long-term crops with value added components such as sun drying and
packaging are in the production strategy. Plans for the development of drip
irrigation have been drawn and JV partners are being assessed at present.
Agricultural companies wishing to engage with the project are being assessed at
present. The area is well known for it’s immense agricultural potential.
Farm Debt Restructuring and Redistribution Project
This
project is the initiative of Dr. Izak Labuschagne. In this initiative, existing commercial farmers that have
found themselves in trouble with the banks are restructured and teamed up with
their work force into an empowerment
group operating an Agricultural Corporation manifesting as a
Pty Ltd Company. An equity partner like the IDC is teamed up with the
Land Bank of South Africa for the
acquisition of the land and the creating of enhanced infrastructure on
the land in a willing buyer willing seller scenario. This infrastructure is
then coupled with a private sector partner with an established reputation in
agriculture or the previous operators so as to service a secured market. All
of this is based on a previously negotiate shareholding structure in the
Corporation and a highly developed legal framework that satisfies the banks,
financiers, facilitators, and international investors, all at once.
Incredibly, the government of South Africa
effectively and distanced itself from supporting this initiative by refusing to
make LRAD grant funding available in the R 82 mil Douglas Empowerment project,
mainly because they do not want the LRAD system to benefit white farmers
and would like projects wherein they have enough control so as to delay
sustainability and with that the transfer of the land in the old age
Machiavellian plot of perpetuating political control through government
controlled land ownership. As could be expected the cat finally jumped out
the bag as can be seen from the decision of the Group One farmers, the chiefs
in various areas such as the Northern province and the attitude of many
prominent financiers and investors in the sector. With so many white farmers and their
financiers ready to embrace responsible land reform on this basis, the private
sector has now effectively taken the lead in responsible land reform in South
Africa.
Other Mandates and project
This consultancy also attends to the
strategic planning and related matters for the following projects:
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Carpe Diem Diamond Mining -
Northern Cape.
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Rice Production – Mozambique
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Tourism – Mahamba Gorge Swaziland
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Game ranching corridor - Kwa
Zulu Natal
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Yacht
Chartering - East Coast of Africa
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Various other projects
protected by confidentiality clauses
Summary
Apart
from the above projects this consultancy has also taken mandates from project
leaders in the mining and
manufacturing sectors. These projects are
subject to rather strict confidentiality agreements and therefore summaries of
these projects will only become available when they are fully established. The
value of these projects comprises some R 230 Million. The total value of
projects under management exceeds 2. 5 billion Rands
