About Us

Overview &
Experience

Thaton Property is a leading and award-winning Property Development and Investment Holding Company. Thaton Property conceptualizes, designs, engineers, finances, and operates the property project it develops.
Being an enterprise with experiences in all facets of the property value chain Thaton Property has consistently delivered projects for its investors at competitively low cost without a compromise on quality that has ensured successful operations of the Operating Businesses it has created. Project experience ranges from Hospitality, Residential and commercial and various real estate services. Trading as Auspex Property in South Africa a portfolio of ZAR 1 billion was developed at peak valuation under its own balance sheet. In Zimbabwe current projects being pursued are valued at approximately US $ 20 million.

Awards & Recognitions

In 2005 we became the 1st South African company to sign an agent agreement with Damac the largest privately owned property development company in Dubai. Some of Damac's very successful projects are shown above that we marketed as an agent for Damac in South Africa.

SAPOA Award

Award in Excellence for Property Development 1st Place Brooksview Apartments.

2007

ABSA

The Herald & NMMU Businessperson of the Year Award: Entrepreneur Award.

2008

SAPOA, - PERCCI & NMMU Geo-Sciences Award

-SAPOA Award in Excellence for Property Development 1st Place - Radisson Blu Hotel.
-SAPOA Award in Excellence for Property Development Overall Winner - Radisson Blu Hotel.
- PERCCI & NMMU Geo-Sciences Award for Progress in Environmental Management - Radisson Blu Hotel.

2009

SAPOA

LA National Awards 2010 - Radisson Blu Hotel Port Elizabeth.

2010

Caprice, Nelson Mandela Bay Style Awards

Eastern Cape Most Stylish restaurant

2011

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

A former South African Businessperson of the year, Ben is an experienced property developer and accomplished international speaker. He has developed projects from Casinos and Resorts, Super Maximum Prisons, 5 Star Hotels among many others.

A leading global businessman with an unmatched entrepreneurial ability driven by passion and a vision for a developed Africa. Ben founded and currently leads the Thaton group of companies.

Bec Const Mgmt (Natal), PDP (UCT Grad School of Bus), CMP (Stellenbosch)

Hilary is a seasoned and experienced senior Southern Africa business leader. A Mechanical Engineer by profession, he is a strong marketer and strategic thinker. Hilary spent 19 years with the global behemoth Unilever, whom he left as the Managing Director for Eastern and Southern Africa and Emerging Markets . He is a past Principal Officer, Investments Committee Chairman and Chairman of the Unilever Zimbabwe Pension Fund and Unilever SA (Zim Section). Hilary now consults to various multinationals and large local corporates in Zimbabwe whilst also sitting on the Board of Thaton Property.

Hilary has a passion for African Excellence, Innovation and People Development.

Boni is the CEO of Thaton Property and holds an MBA and BSc QS degree. Boni has over 24 years of experience in the construction, property, housing and finance sectors in Southern Africa. He is the former CEO of the GPF Fund and as Chief Investment Officer he has invested and managed over R6bn in infrastructure and real estate projects. Boni was instrumental to the establishment of GPF Fund in 2004 and has led astute investments in residential and commercial property for private and public institutions. He has worked for listed and private blue-chip companies such as Group Five, Costain Africa, African Bank and ABSA/Barclays Bank with exposure to multiple sectors.

BSc Qs Honours (University of Natal,SA), Real Estate Finance (Wharton Business School,USA), MBA (Unversity of Pretoria,SA)

COMPANY SECRETARY

Shungu has vast experience in the management of finances in various sectors including the property development sector, retail sector, insurance sector, the mining sector and the financial services sector.

He began his career 17 years ago as a Junior Accountant at MH Ballima & Associates (Chartered Accountants) and moved on to a middle management position at ZB Life Assurance (Private) Limited before assuming senior financial management roles at Canadile Miners (Private) Limited and then Finance Manager at TN Asset Management and Lifestyle Holdings Limited. After leaving TN Shungu joined Thaton Property (Private) Limited in October 2018 as the company’s Corporate Accountant and has held that position to date.

Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance (2002), Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA)

Our Team

Neil has held directorships of Murray and Roberts Construction Genrec Construction, and Grinaker Zimbabwe. Prior to joining Thaton Property Neil was a full time consultant to Arup Zimbabwe where he established their project management division. Mr Bradshaw has extensive senior management experience at executive level on all kinds of building and civil engineering projects. Advising clients from inception, through feasibility, development and implementation. Handing projects over to specification, on time and within budget is a must. Neil is skilled at building teams -selecting the best people for the job. As an expert in Gannt charts and Critical Path Planning he ensures projects are completed to program and handed over on time. Troubleshooting distressed projects and forensic analysis of problem projects is another area of specialisation for Neil.

Neil is a past President of the Construction Industry Federation of Zimbabwe and has held positions on several construction industry boards. He was extensively involved in the revision of the Building Contract for Zimbabwe, resulting in the adoption of the NJPC2000 standard contract form. Neil has been leading the design team for the new Capital Hotel Harare project and is set to lead the construction process for this prestigious project which Thaton Property is the Developer

Bsc Honors in Building, 1979 UK Memmber of the Chartered Institute of Building, MCIOB 1987

In a career spanning 34years William is a master construction expert. Having served apprenticeship with John Sisk and Son Building Contractors. He left Zimbabwe for South Africa and joined WBHO Pvt Ltd (the biggest construction company in SA) as a Senior Foreman in charge of Wet Trades and Finishes. Notable projects were Metcourt Hotel,Johannesburg where he was responsible for finishes and quality in the massive hotel and casino project. William has run his own construction company when he returned to Zimbabwe. Then joined Thaton Property in 2014 whilst still in SA. William was the Construction Manager responsible for the MSC building in Belgravia developed by Thaton. William has garnered a dearth of knowledge in the construction and management of high end commercial and residential projects.

Moses has 24 Years in Cost Management, construction, and Quantity Surveying in Zimbabwe. He has run and operated his own Construction companies and worked as a professional quantity Surveyor in various practices. His experience in cost management and control is invaluable assisting Thaton to deliver projects on budget and within the specified quality.

BSc Quantity Surveying (NUST), Masters in QS (Univ College of London)

An enthusiastic and professional quantity surveyor possessing over 10+ years  experience in  contract administration , property development ,cost control and enhanced value addition on high impact construction and engineering projects. Breeze  possess strong problem-solving, numerical, communication and negotiation skills as well as solid construction and financial knowledge to properly manage commercial and contractual aspects of the projects, and to effectively meet business demands.Project management professional has executed multiple proven projects in Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe with exceptional standards and developed new business ideas in the built environment. Breeze passion is to ensure Thaton property delivers quality projects on time and within budget.

MSc Construction project management.(Nust) 2014, BSc (Hons) in Quantity Suverving(Nust) 2009

Katherine Muduva is an experienced property consultant,sales,business development with extensive knowledge of Residential and Commercial Real Estate Sales. She has sold estates in the Middle East and West Africa.Inaddition, she managed to execute smooth transactions which led to high effective sales and clients satisfaction. Now she is ready to give back her skills to Zimbabwean community.

BSc Honours in Local Governance (Midlands State University – Zimbabwe)

Ruvimbo is a Certified Advanced Diploma holder with ACCA, with experience in the Ministry of mining and development as a Revenue Accountant intern in 2017 .She moved on to Maestro Restaurant a subsidiary group of Thaton property Private limited in 2019 as an Accounting clerk at the age of 22 and later on climbed the corporate ladder to Junior Accountant at Thaton Property Private limited and has held that position till date. RuVimbo is now 27.

Advanced Diploma holder with ACCA

Chipo Musara : Certificate in graphic design ( ZMC Design School) Graphic designer with 5 years of experience with an eye for detail whose work emphasizes creativity and innovation. skilled in photo and video editing with a mastery of Adobe Creative Suite, Past projects range from video advertisements to social media content.

Certificate in graphic design ( ZMC Design School)