A comfortable,luxurious life, and aesthetically pleasing environment ensuring a sustainable and comfortable life ,
livelihood in peacefull & socially responsive setting allowing for wealth and education, health and prosperity.
Mission
To provide excellence, accuracy, professionalism and integrity to any of our services and
thereby ensure customer and client satisfaction in terms of both quality of our work,
profitability, viability and good financial return or favourable return on investment for all parties involved.
To offer outcomes based results and turnkey “one stop” services.
Background
The People
The Riggs Brothers are a Cape Town, South African based company.
We trace our origins of European descent and to, some of the first to arrive,
who are 5th & 6th generation of immigrants to Southern Africa after arrivals in 1652 and 1820 by Settlers.
Although we are with European ancestry, yet call ourselves African being sensitised to this environment,
and as a result of being born and breed here.
In our linage and history we trace characters and events related to French revolution of 16th, Crimean War,
and concessions awarded to senior employees of British, Scottish and Irish Monarchies or early 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
Perhaps some of our “warrior's (synonymous to adventurous in today's terms) spirit” and
“aristocratic (synonymous, perhaps, to business & capitalist in today's terms )spirit ”is still embodied
in our present day character.
Family names in our ancestry include: Horak, Kettlitz, Koopmans DeWet, Ashwell, Combrinck, Marais,
Bellingham-Marias, Van DerWalt and seemingly also De Villiers families.
(As with a large number of Afrikaaner families it is now accepted that a number of us are with very mixed
and sometimes undocumented, or suppressed, ancestry including Moslem Cape Malay, Jewish,
French Huguenot Protestants making us as South Africans a truly diverse people).
Career History
Our education is from Eastern Cape & Western Cape Based scholastic and Academic Institutes
and in fields of Architecture and Design and related disciplines.
Dion is experienced in the private sector mainly in Construction Project implementation.
He started his career as a business planner for a carpentry factory.
While John has a number of years experience in Parastatal Corporate Governmental
Institutions mainly in Project Management and team leadership.
He started his career as a recruitee at horticulture and landscaping centre.
Together they make and formidable team and are able to, at any time, to draw upon a good and varied basis of knowledge,
associates and network of inter disciplinary related resources and infrastructure.
Our business is based on our productive history, technical expertise and area of interest and experience.
We however are determined to permanent expansive growth of our business and are committed to employment and
development of competent people hence we do accept challenges of any type, which we are prepared to
handle under our projects management skills.
Unlike in some other regions of the world where it is frowned upon not to be working specifically in one's sector
or area of expertise, we are multi skilled problem solvers and will accept jobs our clients my direct to us.
We however are determined to permanent expansive growth of our business and are committed to employment and
development of competent people hence we do accept challenges of any type, which we are prepared to handle
under our projects management skills.
Unlike in some other regions of the world where it is frowned upon not to be working specifically in one's sector or
area of expertise, we are multi skilled problem solvers and will accept jobs our clients my direct to us.
Wealth is created world wide and we are game to accept challenges to assist you to develop
your wealth by utilization of our relationships, network, services or skills anywhere on this planet,
we have experience in West, Central and Southern Africa, and European areas of Germany and UK, and have influence in Canada and
developing similar relationships with China.
Speak to us with your specific needs and we may well be able to find a solution.
Services
/ Construction & Landscape Services
We maintain, build and/or renovate your high value property investments.
Areas active:
* Wooden Decks and Pergolas.
* Landscaping, retaining walls and pools.
* Refurbishment of bathrooms, tiling and plumbing;
* Glazing and Ironmongery.
* Paving, Painting and plumbing.
* Electrification and Refrigeration (Domestic, Residential and Industrial).
* Irrigation and drainage.
/ Property Development
We are currently strategically positioning ourselves to be involved with development of residential complexes and
condominiums and as an offshoot anticipate being involved ultimately in a property and assets managements company.
We guide, or assist you with design and implement your own or our architecture and concepts.
Our network includes some award winning designers and related disciplines that ease our work.
Energy & Mining Development
We are currently involved in study to ease turnkey develop of regional mining industry in both greenfield and
brown field development in Renewable Energy infrastructure & Resources,e.g.,
Wind and Bio- diesel & Oil Industry Downstream Support Services,
Diamonds & Gems, Heavy Metals and Rare Earth sectors of the market
Gallery
Photographic history of our sites worked on .
Dion oversees a small band of entrepreneurial artists making concrete garden statues.
Ecotourism & Agriculture
These market sectors are critical to land reform and political stability of and the development of Southern African Economy and
the areas which show greatest potential for growth and independence of Southern African and indeed African economy.
We design build, and anticipate in our planning, to own and operate ultimately to, and transfer guesthouses, irrigation systems and
farm or rural based developments in African indigenous medicinal plant industry, olive orchards, vineyards.
John oversees a entrepreneurial and small emerging farmer group, producing organic herbs & vegetables,
of companies working on outskirts of Khayalitsha, Cape Town they are with the aim of commercialisation of this project.
BEE
Strategically, we are positioning ourselves to, affect the development of our employees to become “stand alone”
private subcontractor companies where we would own a managing portion thereof in order to ensure proper development and
sustainability, of their enterprises.
We are gaining a foot hold in Khayalitsha and Athlone as part of our endeavours to assist with development
of these areas where our staff are predominantly,
drawn from and further afield in Engaleni, Tsolo, Maclear and where their ancestral homes are.
“clients “
Among some of more prominent and happily satisfied customers are:
House Hau, Constantia, Cape Town
House Igbinedion, Abuja & Benin City Nigeria
Kobwa & Swaziland Government, Piggs Peak
Countryline Landscapes, Edenvale, Johnnesburg
House French, Bantry Bay, Cape Town
House Ferri, Bantry Bay, Cape Town
House Schreiber, Pinelands, Cape Town
House Combrink, Parklands, Cape Town
House Marincowitz, Vredehoek, Cape Town
House Pierre De Vos, Bantry Bay, Cape Town
House Kirsch, Seapoint, Cape Town
House Iverson, Fresnaye, Cape Town
House Schaefer, Greenpoint, Cape Town
House Opperman, Greenpoint, Cape Town
New projects in preparation and or planning are:
House of Bambi, Lobito, Angola
House of Mokonzi Mo-amba-Am, Kinshasa, DRC
Links and affiliations:
The South African Landscapers Institute
The South Africa Green Search Engine
The Construction Industry Development Board
The South African National Biodersity Institute
The Construction Education and Training Authority
The Department of provincial and Local Government
Environmental law
Environment South Africa
Food & Trees for Africa
The Institute of environment and recreation management
