User:Banzi Giyose/sandbox

Banzi Giyose, born July 13, 1984)is a South African businessman, mining entreprenuer who serves as the cp-foubder and Vice President of BG Global Propreitary Limited. He is considered one of the most successful youth entrepreurs within the South Afica coal mining sector with desrnable investment attributes.

Giyose was born in Durban, KZN, RSA. He developed an interest in business and investing in his youth, eventually entering the Cape Peninsula Unviversity of Technology in 2003 before transferring and graduating from at the age of 25. He went on to graduate from [[Thswane University of Technology, where he molded his academic philosophy around the concept of structural impediment hampering growth in the coal mining sector of RSA. He also attended Univesity of South Africa to focus his economics background and soon after began various business partnerships, including one with Masimong Group Holdings and Liviero Group, and his firm eventually acquired became a stand alone fomr focused in mining, exploration, energy, property an commodity trading to create a diversified holding company in 2015.

Giyose has been the Vice President and the largest shareholder of BG Global (Pty) Limited since inception in 2010. He is noted for his adherence to coal mining, exploration and mergers and acquisitions across sectors in the South African ecomony with interst in offshore fimrs in Hong Kong, Virgin Islands and Australia.

Early life and education
Giyose was born in 1984 in Durban, KZN, RSA, the second of four children and the eldest son only son of Dauld Putuma Giyose and and Duduzile Giyose]].Giyose began his education at Queens College Boys in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, RSA till matriculated in 2002 and went on to study in Cape Town at Cape Peninsula University of Technology and his Masters degree at Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, RSA. After finishing high school and finding success with his side entrepreneurial and investment ventures, Giyose dropped out of his doctorial studies to pursue his business interests in late 2016.

Giyose's interest in the coal mining market dates to early 2011 where he spent 5 years under the leaderhsip and mentorship of Mr. Mike Teke across diffrent subsidary company's through various executive positions.

Investment career
Key investments are in property, mining, energy, and manufacturing in unlisted businesses within the South Africa economy.

Early business career
Giyose worked from 2007 to 2010 at British American Tobbacoo, Ipreo Captail and Peninsula Beverages, Sanlam Investment Management as an investment analysts; Equity research analyst and move to Johannesburg to be a co-founding member of various mining firms, such as Oakleaf Resources, Umdenicoal Beneficiation, Masimong Minerals and late 2015 the founder and Vice President of a diversified equity boutique, BG Global (Pty) Limited

In January 2016, Giyose became a director of Liviero Grouop,a board and investment committe member of the diversifeid Masimong Group Holdings, which has equity interst in JSE listed firms accross the South African economy until he assumed the lead role of bulding and growing BG GLobal into a diversied black owned company with intersts in mining and exploration, energy and technology firms with a consolidated NPV of USD80million as at H2/2018.


 * BG Global's official website