SIS Group · African commodity assurance
SIS Group brings together specialised African operating companies delivering independent inspection, commodity assurance, collateral management and integrated logistics across more than 25 African countries.
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01 — The group
SIS Group is the parent. It brings together specialised operating companies in inspection, collateral management and related services throughout Africa. The current site leads with SIS Inspections. This page leads with the group, so a visitor understands who they are dealing with before they choose a service.
SIS Inspections began in Zimbabwe in 1992, when drought relief cargo arriving in the region had to be checked and verified. The group now has an inspections and collateral-management footprint in more than 25 African countries, with head office support from Port Louis.
Figures above are taken from the current SIS Inspections website, including the leadership line on collective experience hours. They should be confirmed before publication.
Making sure that our clients get exactly what they order is the best kind of business for all.
02 — Operating businesses
Four operating businesses under one holding company. GCC also publishes its own site at gcc-africa.com. These cards introduce each company inside the group.
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Collateral management
The group’s collateral management business. Based in Johannesburg, GCC has operated in Africa for nearly 20 years, with custodianship, stock control, risk management and reporting for traders and financial institutions.
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Quality and quantity
Q&Q has a 34-year history of inspection services throughout West Africa, working with some of the continent’s largest trading institutions. Q&Q joined SIS Group in 2024.
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Commodity inspection
The bedrock operating company. SIS Inspections has provided quality and quantity verification, sampling, analysis, grading and testing in the SADC region since the early 1990s, beginning in Zimbabwe in 1992.
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Mozambique operations
An inspection services company for the Mozambican economy, based in the ports of Maputo, Beira and Nacala.
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Integrated inspection, commodity assurance, collateral management and logistics, supporting the movement and protection of commodities across Africa.
Quality and quantity verification through sampling, analysis, grading and testing, against the client’s specification or an accepted industry standard.
Learn MoreCustodial control of financed goods: stock control, monitoring, risk management, reporting and compliance, delivered through GCC.
Learn MorePeriodic or full-time attendance, reporting stock levels and movements in the way the client has asked for them.
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Independent reviews of a client’s operational processes, used to improve efficiency, reduce cost and tighten risk controls. This is a GCC service.
Learn MoreSea, rail and road movement, with warehousing at strategic locations, coordinated alongside inspection and control.
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Independent tally while cargo is loaded or discharged, confirming the quantity that is going to sea.
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Site inspections for storage suitability, and management of financed goods held under control.
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Drone and land-based stockpile measurement, through specialist licensed surveying partners.
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Marine, trade credit and agricultural cover, arranged in conjunction with EIRS World.
Learn More04 — Industries
The same three industries the group already publishes, set out so a trader, a bank or a shipper can find their cargo quickly.
Grains, fertilisers, sugar, coffee, oilseeds and other agricultural commodities.
Petroleum, hydrocarbons, natural gas and related products.
Chrome, nickel, manganese, copper, cobalt and other minerals.
05 — Footprint
Local teams, regional offices and a head office in Mauritius. The group’s published presence covers more than 25 African countries.
Regional office · Harare
Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Regional office · Dar es Salaam
Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda.
Regional office · Lagos
Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Morocco, Nigeria and Togo.
Lists follow the current SIS Inspections website and describe on-the-ground presence. GCC publishes a different picture in places, including a Southern Africa office in Johannesburg, DRC with East Africa, and a West Africa office in the United Kingdom, with strategic partners in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. Confirm the map before it is published.
06 — Why SIS Group
Inspection work on the continent since 1992, built around cargo that had to be right on arrival.
Country presence across Southern, East and West Africa, with regional offices and a Mauritius head office.
Quality, quantity, sampling, grading and testing against the specification that was actually ordered.
The holding company puts custody, control and inspection in one group, through GCC and the inspection companies.
Tally, stock reports and operational reviews that give banks, traders and insurers a clearer picture of the goods.
People on the ground, backed by marketing, technical and financial support from head office.
Executives and country managers who have run inspections, finance, trade and collateral management.
The work is to keep cargo true, in quality and quantity, from departure to delivery.
07 — Leadership
Experience across inspections, international trade, finance, logistics and commodity management. Each card carries a short introduction. The full biography belongs with the profile.
Chairman
Business executive with a strong HR background and international financial experience, including as Chief Executive of BCR Bank in Rwanda. He now focuses on private equity and management consulting in Africa and SADC.
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Chief Executive Officer
Chartered Global Management Accountant and MBA, with 36 years mainly in FMCG across African markets, and further experience in technology, beverages, cement and aquaculture.
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Chief Finance Officer
Chartered Certified Accountant with over 30 years in finance leadership, including British American Tobacco, Nestlé and Brinks Mauritius.
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Executive Director
Founder of SIS Inspections. Thirty-five years in regional trade and logistics, building inspection services across Africa for international clients.
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Executive Director, Business Development
A founder of GCC. He leads strategic governance and business development, and is a frequent speaker on collateral management.
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Group Head: Business Development
Former banker in structured trade and commodity finance, an admitted Advocate of the High Court of South Africa, and a qualified SAFEX dealer.
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Group Head: Human Resources
HR executive with over 20 years across governance, talent, industrial relations and organisational design in several African markets.
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Group Head: Compliance & Quality
With GCC since its start, and more than 25 years in the industry, including as Head of Operations. He oversees compliance and quality for the group.
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Head: Contract Execution
More than 30 years in inspections and collateral management. He joined SIS Inspections in 2006, and returned in 2024 to lead contract execution.
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Country Manager: Zimbabwe
With the group since 1995. He helped set up the Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi offices, covering agricultural, food-aid, fuel and high-tech cargo.
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Country Manager: Zambia
Country manager since the Zambia office opened, with over 25 years in commercial inspections and collateral management.
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Country Manager: Malawi
Nearly a decade in marketing and business development across inspections and custodial services, with a focus on service standards in Malawi.
View Profile08 — Values
Seven values the business already uses. Kept short enough to scan.
Each client and each cargo is different. The work is a practical solution for that job, supported by systems that help manage risk.
Offices, field teams and long-standing partners, so the work can be done across the continent.
A client-centred brief, with a contract manager assigned so the deliverables actually move.
More than 30 years of hands-on work in how trade in the region really operates.
Local inspectors trained, equipped and trusted to make the operational decision in front of them.
The assignment is finished, including when the conditions are difficult.
Integrity in inspection and collateral management. Trust is treated as something the next job has to earn again.
10 — Contact
Whether you need independent inspection, commodity assurance, collateral management or logistics, the team can talk through the operation.
Head office
3rd Floor, Labama House
Sir William Newton Street
Port Louis, Mauritius
