Africa Emerging Capital Partners invests in two construction companies

Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), an international private equity firm focused on investing across the African continent, announced today that it has acquired controlling stakes in two North African construction sector businesses. The equity investments in Shoresal and Almes, totaling USD $26.2 million, are part of ECP’s strategy to expand its North Africa portfolio.
“ECP has invested in [...]

SA’s sticky inflation should start behaving into 2010

Vivienne Taberer, portfolio manager at Investec Asset Management, mulls the reasons for South Africa’s sticky inflation, but looks forward to a far better behaved CPI into 2010.
After seven months of nasty surprises on the upside, some commentators are tentatively suggesting that CPI inflation, due tomorrow, may just pleasantly surprise [...]

NEF finances R41.9 million leveraged buyout of CDC

EMPOWERMENT agency the National Empowerment Fund (NEF) today announced the conclusion of a R41.9 million investment deal to finance a 100% buyout of Colliery Dust Control (CDC).
The transaction involves a partnership between a black economic empowerment (BEE) consortium led by Bulelwa Geza and existing management of CDC.
“The deal structure leverages the skills sets of the [...]

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South African private equity firms are increasingly looking at the rest of the continent, spurred by the success of local telecoms and retail companies in Africa’s frontier markets, according to KPMG.
Africa’s biggest economy accounted for more than 70 percent of the sub-Saharan region’s $2.9 billion of private equity deals in 2008, but this share is [...]

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