Propatek

15/06/2026

12/06/2026

Property Developer's canvas 😋! New site for me to coordinate the feasibility design and construction of a new property in Mpumalanga, South Africa 😍! I'm gonna be collaborating with a whole bunch of local architects and engineers and contractors (most of who I choose myself) but as the property developer I will be running the show 😍. This is quite different from the other developments I'm currently working on 🤔! I'm currently based in Zimbabwe and that's not gonna change anytime soon - I love the weather and laid back Zim vibe. But every second month or so I find some time to go to SA for a few weeks for site visits and to meet clients and to also have a blast. Looking forward to travelling to Mpumalanga - I hv heard so much about it 😍!

11/06/2026

Probably the most powerful prophecy of Jesus that came true was in Luke 21. The disciples were admiring the beauty of the temple in Jerusalem when Jesus told them "not 1 stone on that building will be left on top of another." He further told them that people would go thru distress, famine, violence & slaughter by the sword. Jesus specifically told them that if they ever saw Jerusalem surrounded by armies they must RUN (Luke 21 vs 20). 40 years later in the year 70AD long after Jesus had died & risen & gone to heaven, the Jews revolted against Rome. Roman emperor Vespasian sent General Titus with 60 000 men. According to history authors Eusebius and Epiphanius - when Christians saw Jerusalem surrounded by Roman soldiers they RAN away to the city of Pella following Jesus warning. The bloodbath that followed & the dismantling of the temple is in the history books. Imagine the power of having Jesus in your life, he took the care to warn his people about the death trap 40 years before it happened. TURN TO JESUS 😍!

08/06/2026

That’s me with the glasses (u can always tell with the dark Zimbabwean skin 😏)! The lighter guy is one of my South African clients. I took this pic last week on a business trip to Johannesburg. As a property developer I’m helping my client get into retail & this is his first shopping center I’m developing for him. Feasibility, design coordination, construction administration, funding, leasing, business framework - it’s all my baby. On this day we had just finished doing buildability and value engineering on the design (red-marking the drawings) and we were so excited - so we captured the moment. I gotta say Wits architecture + property + business school prepared me well. 14 years of working for 6 different “white” architects also gave me a good grounding. Reading over 300 books & having written 5 of my own books sharpened me a lot. But the real deal - inventing a property deal from scratch & actually getting it built - that is an adventure & a half - I’m honored to be part of shaping this amazing mega city 😍!

05/06/2026

After all my personal drama the real work begins. This is one of the stocks in my (very little) investment portfolio. Just over a year ago I did not know the first thing about money 💰 except how to read financial statements from what I was taught in business school. Ever since then I have taught myself investing, trading and wealth management. I’m actually writing my 6th book and it’s all about money. What shocked me as I was looking at this chart today is how the principles of trading are related to the principles of investing. If u know how to read trading charts u can EASILY pick up where your investment stock is coming from and where it’s going just by reading this chart. I gotta say knowing money is a world in itself and I love every moment of it 😍!

05/06/2026

So a few days ago streamer ishowspeed released his World Cup song “Champions” and it’s already clocked 20 million views on YouTube 😳! That song is EVERYTHING u find in the World Cup - passion innovation culture - and it’s well put together. In my opinion this song beats Shakira and Burna Boy official World Cup song by miles. What blew my mind is that this kid is only 21 and his net worth is already $30 million 😳. And this is the reason why - nobody asks him to do things. He sees opportunity & he just grabs it and he makes a lot of money. While the rest of us watch on. Elon Musks come in all shapes and sizes 🤔!

30/05/2026

This is me today in Johannesburg - 3 different people said I look great this week 😍! They say I look monied up 😂! I’m actually broke - ever since I mastered property finance & investment & wealth management I stopped using my bank account as a money vault - so I LITERALLY don’t have money on me or in my bank account for that matter 😔. Cash is trash - assets are everything! What I do have though is attitude - lots of it 😂! A bad boy brand which I have been building for over a decade - & it has only started paying off. This is the finished product - a brand built on arrogance, lifestyle, s*x appeal & it works! Every client I attract knows how to think out of the box - they are not scared of crazy! It’s been a privilege to take my crazy clients through the path of structured property finance, sensible property investment & the fundamental principles of wealth which have separated the destroyed van Der Bilt legacy & the wealthy Rockefeller legacy. Your greatest asset is what nobody can copy - this is brand me 😍!

30/05/2026

Here is to Johannesburg - a city where half the population are migrants (local and international) just like me! All of us came to find something buried 4km under the ground of this city - virtually a third of all the gold ever mined in the world is from the Witwatersrand basin. That’s R100 trillion worth of gold that has passed through this city 😳! Folks this city is literally built on money - that’s what drives our secondary and tertiary economies - so it’s impossible not to be rich in Jozi. I’m a property developer - reading cities is my bread and butter and that’s y I know so much about Gauteng. I’m working on developments for clients and for myself right here in the city of gold. That is where I took this pic. I gotta say the opportunities in this city are just mind blowing. Even after more than 30 years I keep discovering amazing things about this mind-blowing primate and only alpha class city in Africa. I just love Johannesburg 😍!

29/05/2026

I also took these pics in Johannesburg CBD today. It’s the FNB bank city along Commissioner Street and Simmonds. It covers 4 city blocks 😳! But Jozi city blocks were designed so tiny cos of the gold rush - u can’t build anything big for a Jozi size institution on a Jozi block. The tiny city blocks in Jozi contribute to the tense urban vibe as compared to a better laid out Pretoria which feels more relaxed. Bank City was designed by Cape Town architect Revel Fox and built early 90s. The building is just landmark - a masterclass for its scale - I’m not sure if the internal courtyards work though 😔! I have built things this big before while working for others. As a property developer I’m currently working on a beast this scale for 1 of my clients here in Gauteng. This made made me believe u can still create magic no matter how big the scale. Truly inspiring 👌!

29/05/2026

I took these in Johannesburg CBD today. This is the Diamond Building in Diagonal Street. It was designed by German American architect Helmut Jahn when he was only 40 (can u imagine) in the 1980s so this building is more than 40 years old (can u imagine) 😳! I took the liberty of walking all around the precinct to capture the building from all angles. The design concept was to shape the building like a diamond. From the outside u can never tell that this is 22 floors and 80 meters high. Masterpieces in architecture are just TIMELESS! Truly inspired 👌!