Global Citizenship
& Emigration Expo

Andrew is a South African. Having graduated in Economics and Management from Stellenbosch, he relocated to the UK in 1990 where he started and sold several businesses. He returned to South Africa in 2010 for the education of his two children, and now spends his time between Portugal and South Africa.

He has dual British and South African nationality, while his wife also holds Swiss nationality.

He is a serial entrepreneur and networker, enjoys getting start-up businesses up-and-running, and thrives when there is a crisis to solve. He is an international laser sailor.

Richard grew up in Cape Town and graduated from the University of Stellenbosch in 2001. Like many South Africans at that time, he then moved to London and spent four years working at Goldman Sachs Investment Bank.

In 2004, Richard returned to Cape Town and joined the Pam Golding Property Group’s international division, where he moved through the ranks from finance to operations and then the Director of their Mauritius Operation. Richard and his family moved to Mauritius in 2017, where he headed up the group's Mauritius operation on the Island, with a specialised focus on successfully launching new real-estate developments to the Southern African and EU market.

Richard has an extreme passion for real estate and the investment migration industry, which focuses on residency- and citizenship-by-investment programmes that allow individuals and families alike the freedom of global movement.

In his free time, Richard enjoys travelling, a session of surfskiing, a round of golf, or a walk up the mountain with his family.

Richard holds an MBA from the University of Cape Town, a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Stellenbosch and a diploma in Real Estate Development from Cape Town Technical University.

Shakirah was born and raised in Table View, Cape Town. She travelled a bit when she was young, and that’s where her desire to explore and travel the world began.

After matriculating, she studied Events Management at Prestige Academy college. Before joining Sable International she worked at Discovery Headquarters in Cape Town for six years. During this time, she was tasked with numerous operations pertaining, but not limited to, delivering excellent services to clients from start to finish. Problem solving and providing initiative thinking just to mention a few.

She is currently an Investment Migration Caseworker at Sable International assisting clients through every administrative step throughout their migration application process.

She is extremely goal-oriented and hard working. She is always up for a new challenge and love seeing her visions come to reality.

Sihle was born and raised in the Eastern Cape, moving to Cape Town in 2013 to study Surface Design at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. She furthered her studies in graphic design but also branched out into hospitality, taking up retail sales and administrator positions at the iconic and luxury 5-star Mount Nelson Hotel.

Sihle joined the Sable Investment Migration team in 2020 and has excelled in all of her roles, growing from a client administrator to investment migration caseworker and into her current senior caseworker position. She has traditionally focused on assisting our Portugal Golden Visa clients with their application process, even undertaking to learn Portuguese to better understand the requirements for nationality, but she also prepares and advises on complex residency and citizenship applications across all the jurisdictions where we offer investment migration solutions.

Outside of work, Sihle enjoys spending time at the beach, hiking in the mountains, good food and wine tasing experiences.

Valencia matriculated from Steenberg Secondary then did a PA course at the Academy of Learning. She has worked at Table Mountain Cable Way, and in 4- and 5-star hotels in Cape Town. She took a four-year break from working, in order to study social work through Unisa, after which she worked in Health & Safety for seven years.

She joins our Investment Migration team where she will be working as a client administrator. 

She has a bubbly personality and is very humble. She is eager to learn and grow in her new role. Outside of work, Valencia loves spending time with her daughter and grandson. She also loves to braai with friends or binge watch series.

Sarah was born and raised in the UK and graduated from the University of the West of England in International Business. After several travel and hospitality-related roles in the UK, South America, Botswana and Cape Town, she joined Sable International in 2019.

She has British nationality and permanent residency in South Africa.

She has a deep understanding of the various citizenship-by-investment programmes offered by governments around the world, enabling clients to get a second passport or enhanced international mobility.