Real Estate Investor Magazine South Africa July 2015 | Page 12

MASTER INVESTOR

Transforming The
Property Industry
Through Strategic
Partnerships
Brick By Brick
BY MONIQUE TERRAZAS

S

isa Michael Ngebulana
is the Founder and
Executive Chairman
of the Billion Group
Limited and the CEO
of Rebosis Property
Fund. His spectacular success
makes it would be easy to assume
that he had been privileged in some
way, but nothing could be further
from the truth.
With sheer resourcefulness,
entrepreneurial drive and hard
work, Sisa worked his way up from
humble beginnings, building the
Billion Group, Rebosis and his
personal wealth brick by brick.

“I conceptualised the Billion
Group from developing one
single home to the next,
brick by brick.”
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Humble beginnings
Born in Mthatha near East London
in the Eastern Cape, Sisa lost his
dad at an early age and was brought
up by his grandfather, Buchanan
Tandi (BT) Ngebulana, in a village
called Corana outside Mthatha.
A Springbok rugby player in
the 1940s and captain of the
Eastern Province rugby team, BT
Ngebulana was a strong leader and
very influential in the community.
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