Our Team

Gita Goven
M-Arch (UCT), Pr Arch. Reg SACAP
Chairperson

Gita is an architect and sustainability specialist with 35+ years of built environment and design experience; she is trained in regenerative systems design, is CEO of ARG DESIGN and has served on and chaired many boards…

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Tshepo Monnamoroe
BA (UCT), PGDE (UCT)
Chief Executive Officer

Tshepo is a property specialist who has been involved in the industry for the last 16 years specialising in the property development and facilities sectors. He has worked for two blue chip companies focusing on…

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Tahir Fayker
Bcom (UWC), SIAff (UK), MBA (UCT)
Chief Financial Officer

Tahir Fayker, also Chairperson of the regenerative development company and co-founder of AFRICA123 and Regen Africa, is responsible for business partnerships. He contributes a wealth of specialized…

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Shadley Poggenpoel
B.Sc, HDE, MBA (USB)
Chief Operations Officer

Shadley is an experienced, professional, senior executive with a proven track record in the Corporate FMCG industry. He has worked in various positions all over South Africa at South African Breweries He attained a…

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Alastair Rendall
MArch (UCT), MCPUD (UCT)
Chief Project Officer

Alastair is an Architect and Urban Designer/Planner who has been practicing professionally for over 35 years. His main field of practice has been in public sector projects, including housing, public transport…

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Michael Dixon
BA LLB Law (UCT)
Chief Legal Officer

Michael is a senior attorney who graduated from the University of Cape Town with a BA LLB degree in 1994 and commenced articles of clerkship in 1995. He progressed to a partner in 1998, and took over the firm, which evolved…

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MICHAEL DIXON
BA LLB Law (UCT)
Chief Legal Officer

Michael is a senior attorney who graduated from the University of Cape Town with a BA LLB degree in 1994 and commenced articles of clerkship in 1995. He progressed to a partner in 1998, and took over the firm, which evolved into Dixon Attorneys Inc in 1999. The firm brings a wealth of experience spanning 23 years, and Michael has 27 years post- qualification experience in law. The firm is based in the V&A Waterfront, Cape Town.

Michael acquired experience in Contract Law, Civil Law and in particular Commercial Law. Over the years he has engaged in the negotiating and drafting of various commercial contracts and has been instructed to litigate disputes relating to the Companies Act, liquidations, sequestrations, contractual disputes, and disputes between partners, shareholders and directors. He further represents a number of international based companies where he advises on risk and corporate governance and civil and commercial disputes and litigation.

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ALASTAIR RENDALL
MArch (UCT), MCPUD (UCT)
Chief Project Officer

Alastair is an Architect and Urban Designer/Planner who has been practicing professionally for over 35 years. His main field of practice has been in public sector projects, including housing, public transport, especially BRT, and community facilities such as schools, clinics and community centres.

Alastair’s experience began by working for two years in rural India and, after graduating, working for 7 years in a housing and urban development NGO he was part of launching in the mid-1980s. He then started a private practice in 1997 focused on sustainable development in the public and community sphere throughout South Africa, mainly in Cape Town. His practice has directly or indirectly resulted in the delivery of many thousands of homes and public facilities.

Through his long engagement in urban development Alastair has developed the capability to conceptualise and package for delivery large urban development projects. He has come to understand that these large scale projects are the only way in which urban living for the majority of Africans can be significantly improved.

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SHADLEY POGGENPOEL
B.Sc, HDE, MBA (USB)
Chief Operations Officer

Shadley is an experienced, professional, senior executive with a proven track record in the Corporate FMCG industry. He has worked in various positions all over South Africa at South African Breweries He attained a B.Sc. degree and an MBA from USB (University of Stellenbosch Business School).

Shadley also attained a Higher Diploma in Education (HDE) and is a qualified educator. Whilst employed at SAB, he helped adjudicate the Kick-start candidates which formed part of the SAB’s Enterprise Development Program. Shadley is currently a Management Consultant and has consulted to SAB in Africa which entailed re-engineering their processes. He also has answered his inner calling of teaching and currently volunteers as a mentor to students at TSIBA (Tertiary School in Business Administration) which is a non-profit Business school.

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TAHIR FAYKER
Bcom (UWC), SIAff (UK), MBA (UCT)
Chief Financial Officer

Tahir Fayker, also Chairperson of the regenerative development company and co-founder of AFRICA123 and Regen Africa, is responsible for business partnerships. He contributes a wealth of specialized financial knowledge and concepts developed by SmartBond Capital, a capital raising and investment facilitation company which he co-founded 22 years ago.

Tahir is also a co-founder and director of the medical development and management company, the Medshare Group. Other interests include Greenlite Holdings, manufacturer of green light weight building products for the construction industry and the Smart Land Group, a company focused on providing sustainable solutions for a rapidly urbanizing Africa, believing that it is Africa’s time to develop its own rich sustainable future using proven innovative techniques and skills that will ultimately improve the standard of living of all Africans.

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TSHEPO MONNAMOROE
BA (UCT), PGDE (UCT)
Chief Executive Officer

Tshepo is a property specialist who has been involved in the industry for the last 16 years specialising in the property development and facilities sectors. He has worked for two blue chip companies focusing on the Facilities and Operations Management. Some of the iconic projects he has overseen in particular are in the Sandton node in Gauteng province -which is includes some of the most valuable square miles in Africa -namely Sandton City and Nelson Mandela Square. He was also involved in operationally overseeing the largest shopping centre in the eastern suburbs of Johannesburg -the Eastgate Shopping Centre.

Tshepo believes in a coordinating the efforts of people from various and different walks of life to find cohesive solutions in terms of resolving the infrastructural crisis the county is currently facing. He believes that Africa and Southern Africa definitely has room for the continent and the region to surpass the current challenges and be a leading light of positive and transformational development in the world.

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Gita Goven
M-Arch (UCT), Pr Arch. Reg SACAP
Chairperson

Gita is an architect and sustainability specialist with 35+ years of built environment and design experience; she is trained in regenerative systems design, is CEO of ARG DESIGN and has served on and chaired many boards. She is committed to regenerative systems approaches that build family, community, and a healthy planet through settlement design, place-making and development networks. She integrates the disciplines of Urban Design, Planning and Environmental Management, Architecture and Landscape Design. ARG DESIGN has been the recipient of many Architecture and Planning awards.

Gita has convened conversations between experts from diverse disciplines and engaged in action research and design in India, South Africa, and African countries, that have informed settlement design at many scales. This led her to co-author the 1st Edition. of “2 Billion Strong” in 2012, defining six key pillars that underpin modern African City-Design.

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