Identity Partners is a 100% black women owned investment firm which invests in and grows established and growing business primarily in the following sectors:

Mining and Engineering Services Resources and Energy Healthcare Transport

Telecoms, Media and IT Manufacturing and Retail Property Agriculture

Identity Partners provides clients with advisory services via on-the-ground execution capacity across a product spectrum including corporate finance, M&A, Consortium design and management, BEE Policy and Transformation advisory services.

Identity Partners was founded in late 2007 by three professional women with over 45 years of collective experience in business and investment banking.

• Sonja Sebotsa
• Polo Radebe
• Raisibe Morathi (through the Motheo Trust)

We complement the credentials of these founding shareholders with an institutional investor and a highly experienced professional team, including sector specific skills.
 

• The principal objective of Identity Partners is to bring black women into the mainstream of the economy through equity participation in businesses directly and through consortia
• We promote the involvement of women in businesses from Board level through to executive and supervisory levels to add value and to ensure real empowerment
• Identity Partners seeks to be a facilitator for other women and BEE businesses to access opportunities as professionals and as entrepreneurs (e.g. procurement value chain)

• Over and above our social commitment through Identity Development Fund, we are committed to establishing a Broad-Based element into our Company shareholding in the fullness of time given that we are still building up our asset base and Broad-Based communities require regular distributions to fund their activities
• In the meantime our commitment to contributing to such communities is via co-investment on each deal by including relevant Broad-Based shareholders in our transactions
• We have good relationships with several such Broad-Based entities where we believe they have good corporate governance structures and represent a genuine beneficiary base
• Our first preference though is to include the lower earning black employees of the companies we partner with to ensure sustainability in the immediate stakeholder community of that company and to create long term alignment in the transformation agenda