Moloto Capital Investments (Moloto) is a 100% black-owned and woman-controlled permanent capital investment company that is pioneering Black Industrialism in South Africa. Moloto is an activist investor that through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, seeks to acquire control stakes (51%+) in high-potential companies with strong management teams where there is significant opportunity for job creation, empowerment and localisation, foreign exchange generation and innovation.

Sectors of particular focus are manufacturing, agro-processing, FMCG and corporate & industrial services. The company was founded by CEO Merafe Moloto and CIO Navaid Burney in 2016, a locally and internationally recognised investment team. Collectively Merafe and Navaid have over 45 years of financial services industry experience and proven fire power as principal transactors in private equity. Moloto’s ambitions is to act as a catalyst to unlock economic value and transform key industries using the Black Industrialist initiative. As a permanent capital investment company, Moloto is able to stay the course to successfully implement growth strategies unpressured by potentially untimely exit considerations.