To be the leading, reliable and preferred supplier of safety fire equipment and services.
Ketopele Investments Holdings (Pty) Ltd (“KIH”) was founded in 2009 by Heidi Tryphina Gumbi, a young up and coming businesswoman, as an investment holding company with the intention of investing in the mining, engineering and related industry.
Through the leadership of Ms. Gumbi,the company has grown significantly with an annual turnover
of approximately R15 million rands and currently employs over 25 staff, mostly sourced from our local Bakubung-Ba-Ratheo
Traditional Community in Ledig. The company's workshop is situated in Boshoek, near Ledig with the Head Office in Rustenburg in the North West Province.
Ms. Gumbi has lots of experince in business management and finance and has been in the banking sector now for more than eighteen years.
BFS has done remarkable work over the last four years and as part of its vision was to provide a holistic service to all its clients, especially in the mining sector, Bakubung Fire Services was renamed Bakubung Fire Suppression Systems (Pty) Ltd (“BFSS”) and reverse incorporated into KIH as a stand-alone company, with a new corporate structure.
The broad vision is to grow BFSS into the first black female owned Fire Technical Company with a national foot print in South Africa and on the African Continent. Our staff are being trained and encouraged to be innovative and hence our Human Capital motto “people support what they helped to create”.
Apart from our normal operations our Corporate Social Responsibility (“CSR”) purposefully targets the local youth with a particular focus on the African girl child. Part of our plans are after school care, sanitary towels for girls in schools and in the midst of the COVID-1 pandemic, we supplied masks to about 1,000 girls.
We have managed this quest to change the lives our people with the support and opportunities we are getting from our major clients, i.e. the Bakubung Platinum Mine, Sun International, the Legacy Hotel Group as well as the Royal Bafokeng Administration.