Background on Dijalo Property Group

Dijalo Property Services (Pty) Ltd was established in 1998 by Saul Gumede and Hosia Malekane.

Gumede and Malekane had a dream to start the first full service black owned property services company in South Africa. The company’s business philosophy is to be a professional total solution’s company, managed by professional property practitioners, each with many years of practical experience in his/her particular field of specialization, and committed to providing cost effective and efficient services to their clients, utilizing the latest appropriate technology available.

Since the establishment of Dijalo in 1998, the company has re-structured and a number of subsidiary companies formed. The Group of companies is now known as the Dijalo Property Group and consists of the following entities:

Dijalo Property Services (Pty) Ltd
Dijalo Facilities Management (Pty) Ltd
Dijalo Property Management (Pty) Ltd
Dijalo Valuation Services (Pty) Ltd
Dijalo Asset Management (Pty) Ltd
Dijalo Investments (Pty) Ltd
Dipula Property Fund

The group has established a comprehensive portfolio of services which include:

• Property Asset Management
• Property Management
• Facilities Management
• Letting and Broking
• Development Facilitation
• Valuation Services
• Property Consulting

Dijalo Property Services (Pty) Ltd became an investment holding company in 2006 with the objective of owning their own property portfolio. This led to the formation of a joint venture with Redefine Income Fund to form the Dipula Property Fund (Hyperlink to www.dipula.co.za) of which Dijalo Property Services is a 51% shareholder. At 31 August 2009 The Dipula Property Fund consisted of 92 properties valued at R775 million.