Africa Valuation Conference 2023

Alexander Aronsohn FRICS is a Chartered Surveyor with long and wide-ranging experience encompassing residential asset management, commercial and residential development, rating, national and international valuation and investment. Alexander is the IVSC Director of Technical Standards for Tangible Assets and assists the IVSC Standards Review Board and its Asset Boards on drafting IVS, perspectives papers, presentations, training and articles. In addition, Alexander has a leading role in various International Standards Coalitions and is the Executive Secretary of the International Property Measurement Standards Coalition (IPMSC) Standard Setting Committee (SSC), the International Ethical Standards Coalition (IESC) Standard Setting Committee (SSC), and International Land Measurement Standards (ILMS) Standard Setting Committee (SSC). Prior to joining the IVSC Alexander was the RICS Director of Technical Standards and was also the Executive Secretary of the International Fire Safety Standards Coalition (IFSSC) Standard Setting Committee (SSC) and a member of the International Construction Measurement Standards Coalition (ICMSC) Standard Setting Committee (SSC).

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Prof. Kola Akinsomi (PhD) is an Associate Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and the Chief Economist of RealQuant Analytics. He holds a PhD in Real Estate Finance from the National University of Singapore; he is a qualified chartered surveyor (MRICS). His research interests include real estate investment trusts (REITs), real estate portfolio management, capital markets, Emerging Real Estate Markets, and Housing Economics.

He won the best paper award at the African real estate society conference in real estate finance and investments in 2017 and 2022. He was awarded the Emerald Literati Award for Research Excellence in 2019. Kola is the President of the African Real Estate Society and President-Elect of the International Real Estate Society (2025). In addition, Kola is an advisory member of the South African Council for Property Valuers Profession (SACPVP) and a member of the SA REITs Research Committee. Kola has held visiting research positions at the National University of Singapore, the University of Tokyo, Japan, the University of Western Sydney, Australia and Malmo University, Sweden. He has been invited as a guest lecturer at The University of Cape Town, South Africa; Oxford Brookes University, England; Widener University, United States; the College of William and Mary, United States; Virginia Tech, United States; Clemson University, United States and University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.

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Lecturer at the University of Johannesburg in Advanced Property Valuation and Management 4th Year Hons and Managing Director of Metro Urban Valuers in Johannesburg.

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Douw is currently employed by Growthpoint Properties as Property Market Analyst and has close to 30 years’ experience in the Property and Construction sectors. He started his career in Project Management, with Barrow Projects, Property Finance with Rand Merchant Bank, and also spent about 10 years in Academia with the University of Pretoria, during which time he supervised 20 research students at Masters and Doctoral level, and published in excess of 50 papers in academic journals, conference proceedings and other trade publications.

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Motlatso Maloka started working as a Candidate Valuer at the City of Johannesburg, later promoted to Manager Valuations. She worked for CoJ for 17 years. Ms Maloka joined the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform as a Director in 2012, at the time of the promulgation of the Property Valuation Act that gave effect to the establishment of the Office of the Valuer-General (OVG). She became a Senior Manager in the OVG and was subsequently appointed the Acting Valuer-General in 2019.

Motlatso is a registered Professional Valuer with the SACPVP. She is a member of the South African Institute of Valuations (SAIV), wherein she has served as a Committee Member from 2011 to date. Motlatso holds a National Diploma in Real Estate from Unisa (University of South Africa) and a BSc[Hons] in Real Estate from UCEM(University College of Estate Management).

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Mr John Cloete is the current President of the South African Council of the Property Valuers Profession, a statutory body established to regulate the valuation profession and practices in South Africa.

John Cloete started his own valuation practice in 2007, where he was tasked with various types of property valuations, valuation objections and Appeal board hearing for government and private business properties nationally. He worked as a professional valuer for Pangbourne Properties as well as for Transnet Pension Fund.

He is a sessional lecturer on property valuation at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). He holds an MBA and a degree in Property Valuation.

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Ben is responsible for the delivery of the RICS Global Valuation Strategy, which has a key role in securing global financial stability through participation by the RICS in the development and application of International Valuation Standards. Ben is well qualified for this role as an Economist and a Chartered Surveyor with interest in the interface of the economy and property markets and is the author of a chapter in the Routledge Handbook on Sustainable Real Estate.

He has been a practising valuer and respected academic holding senior positions at Nottingham Trent University and The College of Estate Management.

Ben Chairs IVSC Tangible Assets Board is a member of the Standards Board and the immediate past chair of Commission 9 (Valuation) for the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG). He has recently been working with a Team on developing guidance on the valuation of unregistered land for UN-Habitat & FIG.

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Hayley joined Lightstone in 2008 as a Business Development Manager. She has a background in GIS, business analytics, strategy, location analysis and sales management. She has a love for solving problems and enjoys helping clients achieve their goals. Hayley believes that data solves any problem and the true power to achieving more is harnessing knowledge of internal and external data. She has an Honours degree in GIS and Development studies from UJ and a master’s degree in Business Leadership from UNISA.

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Former Board Member and Head of Valuation Standards at the Real Estate Advisory Council (Botswana). Ex-President of the Real Estate Institute of Botswana. Maje Maje is actively involved in the development of valuation standards, ethics standards and measurements of properties in collaboration with IVSC and RICS. In addition, he has participated in continental and international assignments, which have far-reaching impact on how the valuation profession functions in the years to come.

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Nonhlanhla is the Co-owner and Executive Director of Ukukhula Real Estate, a majority black-women-owned real estate asset management company with circa R1bn of commercial assets under management. Ukukhula is an independent, experienced boutique real estate asset manager who provides a fully integrated property solution to property owners.

Nonhlanhla is also the co-founder and director of African Women in Property, an investment holding company with a mandate to democratize property ownership by providing a platform for private investors to co-invest in quality real estate investments that deliver sustainable long-term returns over time.

With over 22 years of experience in the property industry, Nonhlanhla specializes in commercial (office & industrial) property investments, fund and asset management, as well as property developments.

Nonhlanhla has been at the forefront of driving gender diversity in the property industry with her extensive involvement in the Women’s Property Network. As the past national chairperson and current board member of the WPN, Nonhlanhla has spearheaded several initiatives, most notably the launch of the State of Gender Diversity Report in Real Estate as well as the Real Estate Board Masterclass Series.

Nonhlanhla is a non-executive director of Liberty 2 Degrees, Afrit Group, and an investment committee member of Summit Africa: Social Infrastructure Fund.

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Siyabonga Mbanjwa is the CEO of the Pace Group of companies. The Group comprises Pace Property Group, Pace Project Management and Pace Power & Energy.

Siyabonga Mbanjwa was Regional Managing Director of SENER. SENER in an engineering and technology group that originated in Bilbao, Spain in 1956. Today it is a multinational engineering and technology group with 2,500 professionals and 22 offices globally. It has a group turnover in excess of R15 billion. He successfully opened SENER's first office in Sub-Saharan Africa, offering a range of services in the Renewables, Power Oil & Gas sectors in Southern Africa.

Siyabonga has been involved in South Africa ́s Renewable Energy Energy IPP Procurement Programme since its inception in 2011. He has worked with a number of international and local investors, developers, EPC contractors and lenders.

He has also held the role of CEO of Delta Property Fund, a sovereign-underpinned REIT with over R7,5bn of property assets.

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I am a young woman, passionate about the property industry. I have gained over 5 years of technical and professional experience in the built environment; from real estate to spatial planning and construction. With extensive knowledge in valuation as well as real estate finance and investments.

I graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with an honours degree in Property Studies and completed my Masters in Town & Regional Planning at the University of Pretoria.

I am now a registered Candidate Valuer with the South African Council of the Property Valuers Profession (SACPVP), a member of the South African Institute of Valuers (SAIV) and a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society.

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Ephraim Kabunda Munshifwa is an Associate Professor of Real Estate and Dean of the School of the Built Environment at the Copperbelt University in Kitwe. He is the current chairperson of the Valuation Surveyors Registration Board (VSRB) and the Southern Chapter of the African Real Estate Society (SAfRES). He is also a Director at Quest Real Estate Services Ltd and the immediate past chairperson of the Mukuba Pension Trust Board. He holds a BSc and MPhil. in Land Economy from the Copperbelt University (Zambia) and the University of Cambridge (England), respectively. He also holds a PhD in Construction Economics and Management (Property Studies) from the University of Cape Town (South Africa). Professor Munshifwa has published extensively

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Vuyiswa is managing partner and co-founder of AWIP Investment Holdings and Vukani Real Estate Services Proprietary Limited. She has held various industry leadership roles, including being Chairperson of the National Property Practitioners Council, a member of the board and former CEO of the SA Institute of Black Property Practitioners and is a member of the Property Sector Charter Council and Technical Committee. She also sits on the executive committee of the BRICS Women’s Business Alliance and Black Council portfolio coordinating committee.

Vuyiswa is an experienced strategist and transformational leader who is passionate about social entrepreneurship, economic transformation and sustainable development. She holds a BCom PPE from UCT and has completed executive finance programmes with GIBS and Oxford University, as well as a certificate in Property Development and Investment (UCT). She is an alumnus of the Fortune 500/US Global Mentoring Programme and Bain Academy Board Leadership Programme, as well as a recipient of the 2011 Destiny Magazine Top 40 Under 40, 2018 Young Independents Top 100 and was a finalist for the 2018 CNBC Africa All Africa Business Leaders Award and Standard Bank Top Women in Property (2019).

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Paul is an experienced corporate executive and chartered accountant with extensive operational, financial and advisory experience. Since leaving a career in corporate, Paul has, for over a decade, led consulting assignments in the areas of financial management and real estate advisory.

Paul has previously held various senior executive positions in both the private and public sectors. These organisations include Liberty, Bidvest and the Auditor General of South Africa.

Paul was the Head of Property Management Trading Entity (PMTE), which manages in excess of 92,500 properties and 30,000 land parcels on behalf of the South African government.

Paul holds an MPhil in International Business (GIBS), a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (PDBA), a Post Graduate Diploma in Accountancy (UKZN) and a B.Compt (UNISA).

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