Sisa Ngebulana
Sisa Ngebulana founded Billion Group, a major South African property development and investment company, in 1998, and Rebosis Property Fund, a South African REIT, in 2010. He has developed a number of regional shopping malls in South Africa, including Hemingways Mall, Forest Hill City, Mdantsane City and BT NGebs City. Sisa is an attorney of the High Court of South Africa and a past president of the South African Council of Shopping Centres.
Sisa Ngebulana is the non-executive Deputy Chairman of Rebosis Property Fund which was established by the Billion Group in 2010 and on 17 May 2011 became the first black-managed and substantially black-held property fund to be listed on the JSE. On 24 July 2013 the Fund was approved as a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT).
The Fund’s portfolio primarily consists of early stage, regionally dominant shopping centres and large, single tenanted commercial offices in nodes attractive to the South African government providing a sovereign underpin.
Sisa Ngebulana has won various awards: Entrepreneur of the Year Award (2006), Pioneer award (2014), African Business Excellence (2014).
An admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa, he practised with Jan S de Villiers Attorneys in commercial litigation before joining Eskom for seven years as legal counsel specialising in property and finance.
He is a past president of the South African Council of Shopping Centres (SACSC) and has been a director of the Attfund group, Truworths International and the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB).
Sisa has single-handedly developed a number of regional shopping malls in SA, including Hemingways Mall, Forrest Hill City, Mdantsane City, B.T. Ngebs City and with Abacus Bay West City in Port Elizabeth.