

Who we are
A diversified mineral resources investment company with strong operational focus that creates long term value for its stakeholders
Who we are
Siyanda was founded in 2004 by a group of black business professionals with the objective of building a resources business around industrial minerals, energy and the raw materials used in the manufacture of steel products, which collectively drive industrialisation and infrastructure development.
Over a period of less than a decade, Siyanda Resources has grown from a single asset investment company into a diversified and multi-faceted resources and minerals group consisting of cash generative businesses as well as developmental assets.
Siyanda holds various controlling and minority interests in a number of operating assets as well as in undeveloped (greenfield) and expansion (brownfield) resources and beneficiation projects. The group has grown both organically as well as through a series of acquisitions which have been funded from internally generated funds and external financing. Siyanda has also disposed of a number of assets after achieving significant growth during its period of ownership.
This remarkable story has not been achieved alone, but in collaboration with selected partners that contribute meaningful value and compliment Siyanda’s existing technical and management capabilities.


Our purpose
To be a catalyst for change
through responsible mining and
processing
Our purpose
At Siyanda we believe that the characteristics of our strategy, and particularly those pertaining to growth, are as follows:
- Identifying and acquiring businesses that are not deemed to be core assets by its sellers and which display above average growth potential.
- Identifying and acquiring businesses that have an inherent competitive advantage such as low-cost production, a dominant market position and/or technical superiority etc.
- Acquiring controlling interests in order to affect the necessary degree of influence and installing professional management teams with the appropriate expertise and skills. An important aspect of this is ensuring that management are correctly incentivised by ensuring alignment between the interests of management and shareholders.
- Actively involving ourselves in the operation of the targeted acquisition and leveraging our technical and management capabilities, particularly stakeholder management;
- Diversifying our investment portfolio along both the industry dimension as well as the geographical dimension to help manage the inherent cyclical nature of the resources industry, and to maintain sustained growth through the various economic cycles.
- Carefully selecting investment partners that contribute meaningful value and compliment Siyanda’s existing technical and management capabilities.
- Once an acquisition has been completed our management team aims to drive growth by reducing or containing costs, increasing production output, increasing profitability and margins, growing market share and improving productivity within the businesses we acquire.
- An important aspect of achieving growth is by restructuring and adopting an optimal capital structure within in the business. This usually entails leveraging the investment when the acquisition is made and then deleveraging it through internally generated funds.
- Implementing the necessary research and development in order to improve operational efficiencies and potentially expand the product range, ultimately increasing market share and presence.
- Constantly reviewing and evaluating the performance of an investment against its strategy and making the appropriate corrections and realignments.
- In all our successful transactions to date, Siyanda has increased its economic stake in the businesses, either though acquiring minorities or exercising options. At the right valuation Siyanda would always rather own more of a great company than less.
- Once the point has been reached where Siyanda can no longer achieve meaningful growth or, alternatively, where an attractive opportunity is identified, Siyanda exits the business in the most advantageous manner possible.
- In summary, Siyanda believes that it possesses both the inherent core strategies required to extract value and growth from investments and the entrepreneurial culture to identify and execute against attractive opportunities.


OUR VISION
To remain an African owned
business of the future
Our Vision
Siyanda’s vision and strategy is aligned with the principal objectives of the country’s National Development Plan (NDP) which aims to drive industrialisation, mineral beneficiation and infrastructure investment as well as address socio-economic development priorities such as:
· The promotion of exports and beneficiation;
· Job creation and youth employment;
· Broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE);
· Achieving energy security.

