About AGC
Turning Africa's resources into Africa's industries
African Global Consortium (AGC) is a South African-based strategic investment and development company.
Our mandate is simple
We partner with private offices, family offices, governments, corporations and international partners to identify, structure, fund and implement transformative projects across Africa and global markets.
Our mandate is simple: to transform Africa's resources into sustainable industries that create wealth, jobs and long-term value for future generations.
Mission
To build integrated African value chains — from the resource in the ground to the product on the world market — by combining patient capital, industrial capability and genuinely global partnerships.
Vision
An Africa that processes what it produces, manufactures what it consumes, and trades with the world as an equal.
What sets AGC apart
Four commitments we do not trade away
Every mandate is tested against the same four commitments — before capital, before construction, before commitment.
Strategic Investment
Patient, structured capital deployed where it converts resource potential into industrial capacity.
Global Partnerships
A network spanning ten-plus countries, connecting African assets to international capital and technology.
Sustainable Growth
Projects built to operate for decades — grounded in firm power, secured feedstock and real offtake.
Ethical Impact
Governance, disclosure and community commitment held to international standards on every mandate.
How we work
Our Investment Approach
We create value through a disciplined and partnership-driven approach — narrow at the top of the funnel, relentless after commitment.
Stage 01 — Identify
Screening is deliberately narrow. We test every opportunity against resource quality, infrastructure access, offtake certainty and jurisdictional risk before a single hour of diligence is spent.
Leadership
Accountable for delivery
AGC is led by people who have taken African projects from policy document to financial close.
Dr Tshilidzi Ratshitanga
Executive Chairman
Strategic leader in government, public policy, spatial transformation, smart cities and economic development.
Dr Ratshitanga has spent his career at the intersection of public policy and delivery — shaping spatial transformation and economic development programmes, and translating national industrial strategy into projects that reach financial close.
Thabo Christopher Sefali
Chief Executive Officer
Entrepreneur and programme management specialist with expertise in technology, commodities, investments and international partnerships.
Thabo leads AGC's origination and execution across mining, beneficiation and technology. His background spans large-scale programme management, commodity trading and the structuring of cross-border industrial partnerships.
Track record
How we got here
- 2019
Consortium formed
AGC established in Johannesburg to consolidate African resource and industrial opportunities under a single platform.
- 2021
First offtake structures
Long-term chrome and manganese offtake agreements concluded with international buyers.
- 2022
Beneficiation mandate
Smelter and alloy plant development programme launched to retain value on the continent.
- 2023
Global network to 10+ countries
Partnership network extended across Africa, Asia and the Gulf.
- 2024
Digital operations programme
Portfolio-wide data, automation and operational intelligence programme launched across AGC platforms.
- 2025
US$ 5B+ pipeline
Combined mining, beneficiation, energy and smart-city pipeline passes five billion dollars.
Governance & ESG
Standards we hold ourselves to
Institutional-grade governance is not a compliance overhead. It is what makes an African project financeable.
Transparency
Independent technical, legal and financial diligence on every transaction — commissioned by AGC and disclosed to all counterparties.
Compliance
KYC, AML, sanctions screening and beneficial-ownership verification applied to every participant, without exception.
Environmental stewardship
IFC Performance Standards and the Equator Principles as the baseline for project development and financing.
Community & labour
Local procurement, employment and skills-transfer commitments written into shareholder agreements, not left to policy documents.
Our values
Integrity
We do what we say. Every mandate is governed by disclosure, independent verification and auditable process.
Excellence
Institutional-grade structuring and delivery. We hold African projects to global standards, without exception.
Innovation
Technology is not a department. It is how we source, price, de-risk and operate every asset we touch.
Impact
Wealth that stays. Jobs, skills and industrial capacity that compound long after the transaction closes.
Let's build Africa together
Bring us a mandate that matters
Resource holders, operators, capital partners and governments — if the project builds African industrial capacity, we want to see it.