259: Can Private Equity Transform African Agribusiness? with Gerhard Visagie

Repurposing Business · Oct 22, 2026 · 1h 7m

Gerhard Visagie trained as a chartered accountant, which means somewhere a balance sheet is grateful. He spent over a decade in South African agrifood private equity before deciding the real opportunity wasn't one sector but a continent, and around 2007 he conceived of and later incorporated Paladin Africa in 2013, launched in 2022, now running money out of Stellenbosch and Kigali, in both private equity and listed African stocks.

Paladin calls what it does “Capital with Purpose.” That could be a slogan. Then you look at who they actually fund: a school in Rwanda that forms children…