Community Co-Investment Information Sessions
Building generational wealth through collective ownership in Africa’s affordable housing pipeline. A weekly one-hour live forum unpacking how everyday Africans can ethically, legally and transparently participate in property-backed community investment models.
What These Sessions Are About
These sessions exist to solve one problem: Africans are excluded from property development not because they lack money — but because the system is invisible, fragmented, and inaccessible.This platform rebuilds the system in public.
Who Should Attend
• Stokvel leaders and cooperative members
• Teachers, nurses, police officers, public servants
• Youth savings groups and faith-based investment circles
• Township entrepreneurs and diaspora Africans
• Municipal officials, housing practitioners, developers, planners
How Community Property Investment Really Works
Understanding collective ownership, pooling mechanisms, governance models, investor protections, and why “property groups” fail when structure is weak.
Key outcome:
You stop thinking like a saver and start thinking like a shareholder.
Legal, Compliance & Investor Protection In South Africa
Demystifying trust law, co-ownership structures, property syndication frameworks, and the difference between legal participation and dangerous speculation.
Key outcome:
You understand how to protect your community from exploitation.
How To Read A Housing Project Like A Developer
Land zoning, approvals, bulk services, feasibility assumptions, risk profiling, delivery bottlenecks — explained without jargon.
Key outcome:
You no longer invest blindly — you interrogate projects like a board member.
From Stokvel To Asset Class
How stokvel culture becomes structured capital — pooling monthly savings into project equity instead of consumer debt.
Key outcome:
Your stokvel becomes a balance sheet, not a grocery list.
Packaging Bankable Community Projects
How land is converted into investment-ready development packages, the missing middle between government land and private capital.
Key outcome:
You learn how communities become project sponsors, not beneficiaries.
Preparing For Structured Co-Investment
How education transitions into participation, how governance is built before money is collected, and how March marks the shift from learning to structured opportunity.
Key outcome:
Your community is not pitched to — it is prepared.
Hosts & Guests
Host:
Tando Canham – Founder, Mr Affordable Living
Co-Host:
Nigel Adriaanse – Founder & CEO, UbuntuBrix (UBX) and Property Venture Studios
Guest Contributors:
Our Community Co-Investment Information Sessions are enriched by a rotating panel of seasoned professionals drawn from across Africa’s affordable housing delivery ecosystem, including:
• Senior banking and housing-finance practitioners
Leaders with deep expertise in retail banking, project finance, mortgage origination, and community-based funding models.
• Municipal executive management and human-settlements specialists
City managers, housing directors, and infrastructure officials directly responsible for land release, township establishment, and service-delivery pipelines.
• Public-sector finance and spatial-planning authorities
Officials with experience in treasury functions, cooperative governance frameworks, intergovernmental fiscal relations, and provincial housing implementation.
• Private-sector delivery partners
Property developers, town planners, land economists, infrastructure consultants, and project-packaging specialists actively structuring and delivering affordable housing at scale.
Each contributor is selected not for brand affiliation, but for practical execution knowledge — individuals who understand how projects move from policy to pipeline, and from land to livelihoods.
Session Cadence
• Weekly — 60 minutes
• Live on Zoom
• February: Education & Trust Building
• March onwards: Structured Community Participation