Management

Siya K. Xulu – Group Executive Chairman

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to our website that we hope you will find not just user-friendly and informative, but also aesthetically pleasing

I am always inspired to push more as a leader and ensure that my team has enough resources for over 4 300 employees. My team shares my vision. There is nothing impossible at a dedicated rate we can’t achieve. I encourage my team to do less talk and act more, as actions speak louder than words. I am constantly asking for updates and report because I always want to know the status of their progress. It is my duty to generate much required dialogue needed to succeed in achieving our goals. Each day we target ourselves to bring in new business and to grow our brand. I lead them to be Super Focussed and Vision Driven. I tell my team to “Let the vision move forward”. I refer to all staff as team members as our success is based on teamwork.

Makatini Group, from a humble beginning to a continuously expanding business. We feel privileged as diverse as we are and proud of the accomplishments of our people. We have been constantly examining the market to find new service arears to become involved in and try to be innovative by gig after new ideas.

2020 marks 21 years that Makatini Group has been in business, we owe much of our success to our clients and suppliers. Makatini Group has 10 subsidiary companies namely:

• • Makatini Aviation

• • Makatini Mining

• • Makatini Construction and Civils

• • Makatini Strategic Investment

• • Makatini Super Care

• • Makatini Foods

• • Makatini Entertainment

• • M-Executive Fleet

• • Solbeth Protection and Risk Management
  • Makatini Foundation

To realise our vision, we have invested in a long-term strategy. We have completed the first phase of our strategic journey, we have rebuilt strong foundations for sustainable delivery and are on track to return to more growth by 2018. We are focusing on our growth platforms and transforming the business through targeted business development. We are also transforming our way of working.

We want to attract and retain the best talent. We are evolving our culture and simplifying our business. “Be a great place to work”

At Makatini Group, our client’s needs become our own. We offer proactive solutions to suit each’s client’s needs.
We are Vision Driven!

Nondumiso Ngcobo – Group Chief Operating Officer

I am Super Blessed to be part of such a Vision Driven Family. It has been an amazing experience heading Operations of such a diversified brand. I am grateful to our Board members for their guidance and support. I am very appreciative of our dedicated team members who undoubtedly work hard in driving and moving forward our Vision with the goal of increasing efficiency for our clients; saving them time and money.

Over the years Makatini Group has expanded it’s subsidiaries and acquired contracts in various sectors; creating job opportunities and expanding its clientele base, making Makatini Group a global multi-disciplinary brand that can simultaneously and effectively provide pro-active solutions.

Makatini Group continues to explore new ideas and initiatives, identify and creates partnerships in order to evolve, explore programs and grow our brand from strength to strength in order to build a sustainable future for generations to come.

Coming from a Communication & Creative Art background; it became a priority to explore all communication avenues in order to find the quickest and competent methods of reaching our target market and communicating with our existing clients. We have developed programs that focus on ‘Product Packaging’ in order to create unique and specifically tailor made solutions that will meet each client’s needs. Our commitment in working with our clients in delivering ingenious solutions has led us to creating a strong operations team made up of Researchers, Technicians, Trainers, Marketers and Communication Specialists who will create new concepts and innovative ideas that will reflect our corporate identity.

I invite all those who have not employed our various services to give Makatini Group a try and witness a dynamic exceptional experience that will provide integrated pro-active solutions.

Futhi Nkabinde – Group Chief Financial Officer

2019 Financial Year was the year of progress for Makatini Group, as we continued to execute a strategy put in place five years ago. We see Makatini Group’s performance as a function of discipline, reflecting our focus on fundamental industry principles and the emphasis we place on sustainable growth.

In an environment of margin compression and intense competition, we have performed quite well. We credit the strength and consistency of our strategy, the stability and dedication of our management team, and the disciplined execution by our people.

This progress was made despite some significant challenges. As challenges remain, competition is fierce, and the cost of compliance has gone up. The regulatory environment has intensified.

Our differentiation comes down to disciplined execution and customer-centricity. In these various sectors from all our subsidiaries we operate in, the only way to win consistently with Clients is to outperform on service. We continue to invest in world-class service plan.

Our strategic focus remains on sustainable profitability as we grow. And we are growing! Our plan is to strengthen our finances and raise the sophistication of risk management while launching major growth initiatives to become a company that takes on even greater challenges.

We aim to achieve KPI targets by growing profits and improving capital efficiency and will execute financial strategies looking ahead to the next Term Management Plan.

At Makatini Group, our focus on our client’s will remain absolute. The recognition that truly matters to our bottom line comes from our clients!

Nontando Mjwara – Group Head of Marketing and Business Development

This is an exciting for Africa, marketing in sub-Saharan Africa is a complex and difficult skill to master, and this is the reason why Makatini Group has seen that digital is the next great opportunity to tap into this burgeoning market. For two years our campaigns are structured in this breakdown 60% Social Media, 20% Online and 20% Print and Broadcast.

Solbeth Protection and Risk Management a division of Makatini Group has well positioned itself in the past five (5) years as a Leader in Events Security Services, our credentials includes events such as, Umgababa New Year’s Picnic which hosts over ninety eight thousand (98 000) people, Durban Jazz Festival which hosts over thirty thousand (30 000) people and Amcor Dam Music Festival which hosts over forty thousand people (40 000). We pride ourselves by the growth this division has achieved.

We are also proud by the growth we have achieved by positioning all our subsidiary companies in the Private Sector, our private sector clients have grown by 49% and our strategy is to grow our Private Sector clientele by 75% by 2018.

2020 marks 21 years that Makatini Group has been in business. It has been quite a journey and we owe much of our success to our clients and suppliers. We will continue to focus on putting the client’s needs first, providing the highest and professional level of service by offering them pro-active and innovative solutions to suit their ever changing needs.

Our Corporate Social Investment Initiatives

Makatini Group is committed to being a responsible corporate citizen, continuously looking for new ways to increase our impact and reach in South Africa’s disadvantaged communities. Our Corporate Social Investment Programme is driven by the Makatini Foundation.

Over and above the orphanage (Tholuthando Children’s Home) that Makatini Foundation has been looking after for over twelve (12) years. We have taken internships through Mzansi Business Forum Internship Programme where they each spend three months working on each of our subsidiaries therefore when they leave, they are assured to have gained experience in various Sectors that we cover.

At Makatini Group we are Vision Driven and super-focused.

Steven Evans  – Group  Head of Strategy

All company strategies require a buy-in from leadership otherwise your company strategy will have a minimal chance of success. Key leadership must be involved from the onset in order to achieve optimal strategy development. This has been a key ingredient for the success on implementation our strategy for the past three years that I have worked as Group Head of Strategy for Makatini Group.

We believe that the process of strategy formulation and development should “begin with the end in mind” and our experienced team utilise world leading “Business Tools” to guide the leaders to remain focused on creating realistic, implementable, and executable strategies.

Makatini Group follows a strategy of carefully controlled growth, which has a direct impact on the required growth of the Group and associated support demands. In the past three years we have successfully monitored that our company strategy is in line with our marketing strategy, most importantly has been making sure I carefully monitor and coordinate the implementation of these strategies.

2019 was a successful year for Makatini Group. We met key financial targets and continued to invest significantly. As part of our strategy for 2020 we will also continue to develop and implement. We are delighted with our plans for the future.

Sibongile Xulu – Group Head of Corporate Services

Thank you for your interest in working with us at Makatini Group. I hope that the information about us and what we offer is useful to you.

Although I realise it is not always possible to give a complete and comprehensive picture of an organisation, its values and vision, I hope this information on our website at least gives you some insights about Makatini Group.

My role at Makatini Group is to provide strategic support services, including administration, human resources, communications and marketing, information technology, risk management and legal services.

The implementation of transformation and service delivery enhancement programmes has created a high performing organisation. In doing this, I am well supported by excellent teams of staff and senior colleagues. Makatini Group has close and effective working within the management team and with all staff.

Makatini Group is a great place to live and work and we can demonstrate that we have high ambitions for the Group.

William Dunn –  Non Executive Director

Firstly, I would like state how privileged I feel to have the opportunity to serve this institution. I wish to thank my Executive Chairman Advocate Xulu for giving me the opportunity to serve in this position for his encouragement and his confidence in me. I truly feel that the last twelve years as a Non Executive Director of Makatini Group have been fulfilling, and have given me the opportunity to gain valuable experience in the workings on various subsidiaries.

My role with Makatini Group includes constructively challenging and helping develop strategy plus to participate actively in the decision-making process of the Board, and to scrutinise the performance of management in meeting agreed goals and objectives.

For the past twelve years I have not engage in the day-to-day management of Makatini Group but I have been involved in policy making and planning exercises. I am very proud of what the team has achieve so far and with the strength strategy at hand I am looking forward to more achievement for the upcoming year.
I look forward to strengthening our present relations throughout Africa and to developing new links.

 Mthokozisi Xulu  – Non Executive Director

It is my great pleasure to welcome you to Makatini Group Website. I am very honoured to be entrusted as a Non-Executive Director o f this great organisation Makatini Group. I hope that the experience skills and knowledge that I have gained over my work experience will add great value to the growth of Makatini Group.

My role includes assisting constructively driving the Group’s strategy with the organisation, monitoring the management’s performance, setting values and standards within the organisation.

But most importantly my role requires me to bring insightful input which is fresh and new. I have seen Makatini Group grow from Strength to strength over the past years and I am very proud to have been part o this growth for the past two year. I do hope I have been able to make views that have impacted on the growth. Over the past year The Diversity of our Management team and their commitment has played a huge role in the growth of Makatini growth in the past year and I am comfortable with our team and am positive that this year our team will again give us results to celebrate.

I would like to commend the Executive team, senior and junior management and all staff of Makatini Group for your efforts and I ask you to please continue the dedication that you put in to your work, because success will mean better quality of life for a very large number of people who has played a significant role.

Phendula Sikhakhane -Group National Operations Manager

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Management of Makatini Group for trusting me with this important position.

I am working towards ensuring we deliver on all the projects assigned to us. The work we do requires us to stretch beyond our limits in order to achieve and grow the brand of Makatini Group and all its subsidiries. I am working towards ensuring we provide all the necessary tools for our teams to be at their best at all times. We are engaging with every member of the team to ensure we understand all the technical challenges they are facing. We are working towards having the state of the art IT infrastructure and part of that is creating a system that will be a central point for all our subsidiaries.

I believe that for any organization investing in IT infrastructure is an important investment and Makatini Group can only get better.

2020 marks 21 years that Makatini Group has been in business and with that in mind we plan to enter into the next 21 years with cutting edge technology solutions. As our slogan says, we are vision driven.

 Mbuso Mbongwa – Group National Co-ordinator

I will like to start by acknowledging all Makatini Group employees past and present for the role that have played in developing and smoothing of our operations systems but most importantly producing quality work.

My name is Mbuso Mbongwa and I am the Group National Co-ordinator of Makatini Group. I am proud to be part of this dynamic organisation. Let me state how privileged I feel to have the opportunity of be trusted with this position. Some might not see the magnitude of this position for a diverse organisation like Makatini Group which is consisting of nine (10) subsidiaries. Please do go through our subsidiaries for more information of who we are and what we do.

I must play tribute to the high quality of our staff from our secretary to all our staff on the field and all our managers who head all operations. I have always been impressed by our staff depth knowledge and understanding and commitment to driving the Makatini Group Vision.

The hard work we put at Makatini Group is delivering results. Everything we do will add value and contribute to our goals. Makatini Group has become a leader, highly respected by our customers, feared by our competitors and loved by our stakeholders.

We are vision driven.

Madoda Skhosana – Group Quality Management Specialist

Our profession is greatly reliant on manpower. For the past ten years, the main objective of our Human Resources Division has been to provide sufficient manpower to support the strong development of our company.

We have introduced in our Group young graduates with little or no experience. For them, as well as for our other employees, we are developing a training policy which promotes opportunities for advancement.

Our future employees are encouraged to adopt our strong and ethical values, which are:

• • Be honest and forthright

• • Treat people with respect, courtesy and professionalism

• • Provide exceptional service to customers and suppliers

• • Be opportunistic

• Be financially responsible

Our Vision

To be the most trusted global brand in business

Our Mission

To deliver pro-active solutions to our clients without compromising the quality of service

I invite you to familiarize yourself with our website. Should you have wish to join our organisation please email hr@makatinigroup.com

Bayanda Xulu – Group Training and Development Manager

Heading Training and Development at Makatini Group is very complex but exciting the group is very diverse and therefore it requires reliable systems in place to manager this department smoothly.

In the past two year we have upgraded our information technology systems to manage transportation costs, allocate and manage staff resources according to changing needs but most importantly analysing logistical problems and producing new solutions.

We are happy to report that this new system has enabled us to efficiently evaluate performance and quality and to better plan improvements.

We will keep you on the right track!

Samantha Anderson – Group Project Manager – Special Projects

I hope you have gained insights about Makatini Group through our website. We have a great deal to celebrate on the success on our projects that were implemented in the past two years. And we look forward to an even more exciting 2020.

All our projects had an advantage of having a full-time team who have significant experience in various fields and extraordinary dedication and passion. Our works at Makatini Group is becoming more “projectized” and like most organisations we are using project management to achieve business results.  

We are proud to have our projects built around meeting our client’s needs; this assures us to adding value to our client’s needs, exceeding their expectations and most importantly delivering quality results. Thank you for your interest on Makatini Group, we look forward to working with you in the future.

Mlamuli Ndwandwe – Group Head of Security

Makatini Group has trusted me with the responsibility of heading the security for the entire group and that requires me to be up to date with latest technology in order to ensure the group is always ahead of their competitors.  Solbeth Protection and Risk Management (a division of Makatini Group) is an integrated security solutions provider that offers proactive measures in order to combat crime. Our major offerings include VIP Protection, Crowd Management, Threat & Risk Assessments, Covert Investigations, Sweeping & Debugging and also Armed/Unarmed Guarding.

An increase in the crime rate and the radical modus operandi of criminals has necessitated us improving many of our systems and revising a number of our standard operating procedures.

We have increased the emphasis on safety and crime prevention this approach supported by cutting-edge technology, which includes the state of the art control room which allows us to integrate real-time monitoring of CCTV, live guard track, and vehicle tracking.  This was also supported by advanced intelligence and innovative training have all provided great results in the field.

Our Solbeth Protection and Risk Management team believes the best part of our day is waking up in the morning and serving our clients. Our motivation to serve our clients keeps us going, day after day – Because what matters most is their security and trust in us. The perfect relationship begins when we meet our client, listen to their needs, and craft a solution that works for them. We are not satisfied unless you are!