Africa Valuation Conference 2023

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).