About Us – Phembani

Phembani, established in 1994, is a South African based industrial holding company with a focus on investing in, as well as operating businesses and interests in the oil, gas, minerals, mineral resources, metals and infrastructure related (including construction, construction materials etc.) sectors in Africa.

“We create value through an active partnership approach”
Phuthuma Nhleko

Before our acquisition of Shanduka in 2015, Phembani had investments in different aspects of the energy, resources and infrastructure related sectors including:

Oil and gas: Engen and Afric Oil;
Coal: Exxaro, BECSA, and Phembani Coal Carolina; and
Infrastructure: AfriSam

With a focus on longer term investments and building partnerships with fellow shareholders, Phembani prefers to be an active investor, and in some cases, has operational control of its investments.

Based in South Africa, Phembani’s investment focus is on taking advantage of the key growth markets in Africa.

Coal

Before the merger with
Shanduka.

Before the merger with Shanduka, Phembani had investments in different aspects of the energy, resources and infrastructure related sectors including.

Infrastructure

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Oil & Gas

Investment Philosophy

Targeted Sectors

Phembani Group is an African industrial holding company with targeted interests in the energy, resources and infrastructure-related sectors.

Investing in Others

Our business philosophy is to identify investment opportunities in the energy, resources and infrastructure-related sectors, in high-growth markets on the African continent.

Strategic Investment

Phembani remains focused on our chosen sectors, seeking out a limited number of larger investments and significantly influencing the strategic direction of the asset.

By adopting an active role in the companies in which we invest, we’re able to bring strategic value and operational expertise to these enterprises.

The Phembani Group is focused on the sub-Saharan African mineral resources, energy and infrastructure industries.

We recognise that, while Africa’s immense natural resource wealth has attracted increased private investment capital,
little of it has gone into corresponding infrastructure development.

At Phembani we’ve long identified the areas of infrastructure spend that are vital to Africa’s economic transformation.

With the steady economic growth across the sub-Saharan region and the continent home to nine of the fastest growing economies in the world, there’s growing sentiment among investors that, if you’re not investing in Africa, you probably should be.

With our continued successes in high growth sectors on the continent, and our extensive experience and relationships, we’re well positioned to capitalise on the African growth story.