Approach

How we work

Four positions, and they are the reason the group looks the way it does rather than the way a portfolio usually looks.

  1. 01

    We operate, we do not just hold

    Every company here is run day to day by people inside the group. We are on the premises, not on a quarterly call.

  2. 02

    One market, understood properly

    Everything we own trades in Zimbabwe. We would rather know one market well than have a presence in five.

  3. 03

    Businesses that sell real things

    Vehicles, goods, services. Trade with a margin you can explain to a customer without a diagram.

  4. 04

    Slow on purpose

    The oldest company here has been trading since 1996; the youngest opened last year. We add a business when it is ready, not when the page looks empty.

What we are not

Not an investment fund. Nobody here is buying a stake and waiting for an exit — the companies in this group are meant to outlast whoever is currently running them.

Not a franchise operation. Each business has its own name, its own customers and its own way of doing things, and the group is a shared spine rather than a template stamped four times.

Not, so far, in a hurry. Two of the four have been trading for years without a website at all. The websites came because the businesses were ready for them, not the other way round.