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Investment Strategy

The Company’s investment objective is to provide Shareholders with long term capital appreciation through the investment of its capital primarily in Zimbabwe and the region of Mozambique known as the Beira corridor which links Zimbabwe to the coast. While the Company will not have a particular sectoral focus, utilising the investment skills of the Directors and their advisors, the Company will seek to identify individual companies in sectors best positioned to benefit should there be radical improvements in Zimbabwe’s economy. The Company may make investments in the tourism, accommodation, infrastructure, transport, commercial and residential property, technology, communications, manufacturing, retail, services, leisure, agricultural and natural resources sectors. The Company may also make investments in businesses outside Zimbabwe that have a significant exposure to assets, businesses or operations within Zimbabwe. The Company will also look into expanding businesses and brands currently owned by Lonrho or in which Lonrho has an interest in Zimbabwe. The Company will only be able to achieve its investment objective in the event the Zimbabwean economy radically improves.

While there will not be any limit on the number or size of investments the Company can make in any sector, the Directors will seek to diversify the Company’s investments across various sectors in order to mitigate risk and to avoid concentrating the portfolio in any single sector.

The Company’s interest in a proposed investment or acquisition may range from a minority position to full ownership. The Company intends, in any event, to actively manage the operations of the companies it has invested in. To this end, the Company has, through the acquisition of Celsys Limited established a management team in Zimbabwe to provide local day to day management of companies and businesses acquired. Wherever possible the Company will seek to achieve board control or financial control of its portfolio companies. Indigenisation legislation within Zimbabwe may, however, prevent the Company from acquiring majority control in Zimbabwean businesses.

The Directors believe that through their individual and collective experience of investing and managing acquisitions and disposals in Africa, they have the necessary skills to manage the Company and, with the assistance of Lonrho under the management services agreement detailed in the Company’s AIM admission document, to source deal flow. Prior to any investment decisions being taken by the Board of the Company, a thorough due diligence process will be undertaken by the Company’s appointed independent specialist financial and legal advisers.

The Company’s investment strategy is dependent upon future radical improvement in the Zimbabwean economy, and it is therefore possible that a significant period of time may elapse before an investment by the Company will produce any returns. In order to position itself for maximum gain from improvements in the Zimbabwean economy, the Company may make initial investments in Zimbabwe. However, there is no guarantee that the economy in Zimbabwe will improve. Accordingly, the Company may not be able to make any profits and may incur losses. Furthermore, businesses in which the Company has made an initial investment with a view to investing further once significant economic improvement occurs may deteriorate in the meantime.

The Directors intend to seek the consent of the Shareholders for the investment policy on an annual basis. The Company, Directors and Lonrho will comply as a matter of policy with the OFAC and Regulation (EC) No. 314/2004 regulations.

Published : 12/05/2009 15:55:18