Our property auctioneers represent a wide diversity of highly trained selling skills and we have assembled arguably one of the world's strongest auction teams, to provide our clients with true sales professionalism. If you have attended our auctions, you've no doubt been struck by the performance of our auctioneers. With enviable verbal skills, personable interaction and quick wit, our auctioneers keep the crowd focused and the sale becomes an event. With deep asset knowledge, regular training and vast experience we introduce our auctioneers:
- Rael Levitt
Rael displayed early entrepreneurial ambitions during his school and student years. He sold his first property while still in matric and was selling property to varsity staff while completing his law degree at the University of Cape Town.
Rael has today become an innovator, entrepreneur and household name in the asset sales and services industry. He founded his first auction company at the age of 20 and was the founder of Auction Alliance, Valuation Alliance, Asset Alliance and the Alliance Group.
With his infectious personality, astute leadership and bold strategic moves, Rael has developed the Alliance Group into Southern Africa's leading asset sales and services company.
A veteran and pioneer of the auctioneering business at age 40, Rael's knowledge and industry acumen are unequalled in the local market. He has personally sold billions of Rands of almost every asset type and his background in sales and marketing combined with extensive operational and general management experience make him a highly respected and popular leader of the ever-growing Alliance brand.
Contact: 082 777 0999 or rlevitt@auction.co.za
- Ariella Kuper
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Ariella
currently heads up New Business Development for Auction Alliance,
providing a national face for new clients, complex projects and new
initiatives undertaken by the company.
Ariella has excelled in the academic and professional arena,
achieving a BA Joint Honours in Economics from Wits in 1995,
followed by an MBA in 2002 at the Cape Town Graduate School of
Business (GSB), from where she received an exchange Scholarship to
Columbia Business School, NY (USA).
She
was an international steel trader with Macsteel International, a
private equity executive, and thereafter entered the auction arena,
bringing with her an aptitude to quickly understand a variety of
assets, including mining, maritime, aviation and property. The
experience gained from trading included multiple languages,
shipping, logistics, finance and international trade. The auction
environment has offered Ariella a canvas to leverage off all these
strengths on various levels to benefit an extensive client
base.
As
one of the only female auctioneers in SA, Ariella has raised in
excess of R3million for various charities, including high profile
events like FIFA 2010, Zanele Mbeki's IWFSA Leadership Cup,
Anneline Kriel's Homestead, Wilma VD Bijl's Red Cross Children's
Hospital, and Home of Hope, amongst others.
Contact: 079 899 9998
or akuper@auction.co.za
- Andrew Miller
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Andrew was
educated at Kearsney College in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), and it is here
in the province's big school rivalries that he honed his
competitive edge and ability to perform under pressure.
Andrew began his career as an auctioneer in 1982 and has since
conducted thousands of sales throughout South Africa and most
neighboring countries.
In
1986, he gained valuable experience working in America and
travelling alongside some of America's leading purebred livestock
auctioneers. During his 26 years as an auctioneer, Andrew has
conducted just about every national breed stud sale in the
livestock and small stock industry. During this time, he has also
sold millions of rands worth of extremely high profile and high
value commercial and industrial properties.
Andrew is recognisable more recently for his regular television
appearances on the DSTV Super Sport channel as a member of
Bloodstock South Africa's international panel of auctioneers, where
he sells millions of rands worth of high value thoroughbred
yearling race horses. At the 2005 National Yearling Sale, he sold
the all time record priced yearling for R3,3million.
His wielding gavel has also been in action for many charities
around the country, including The Captains Table and the Sunflower
Fund. As Auction Alliance's KZN-based auctioneer, Andrew conducts
all the auctions for the group in that region.
Contact: 082 493 2362
or amiller@auction.co.za
- Gift Ngwenya
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Gift Ngwenya began his
career in auctioneering at the age of 19 at Hammer and Tongues, the
largest auction house in Zimbabwe. It was here where he was groomed
by some of the best auctioneers in the world.
He
later achieved great success when he became the youngest auctioneer
to join the tobacco auctioneers at the largest tobacco sales floor
in the world at the time. Gift gained valuable experience during
this period and was invited to The Thoroughbred Breeders
Association of Zimbabwe, where he was actively involved in the
yearling sales for many years. Through his acquired knowledge in
the equine industry, he went on to become a top horse racing
commentator in Zimbabwe.
A
South African by birth, Gift recently returned home and is now an
integral part of the Auction Alliance team in Johannesburg, where
he puts his exceptional auctioneering and marketing skills to full
use.
Contact: 082 680 7127 or gngwenya@auction.co.za
- Casper Rossouw
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Casper, is
one of our up and coming auctioneers and hails from Potchefstroom
where he joined the South African Police Service and served in the
V.I.P unit and various detective branches. He joined Auction
Alliance in 1999 and immediately began his auction career after
completing the auctioneer's diploma in Cape Town. Casper attended
the National Auctioneers Association conference in the USA and is
involved largely in moveable auctions whilst also doing the
occasional fixed property sale. He has a strong operational
background and has also conducted numerous sales in executions as
well as charity auctions.
Casper forms part of the operational side of the Cape Town auction
team and is involved in Appraisals and auction administration. Some
of the exciting auctions he has been involved in includes the sales
for the Asset Forfeiture Unit, Pick 'n Pay, Safmarine, Nedbank, the
defunct Saambou Bank and the disposal of the Transhex mine group to
name a few. As a family man, Casper loves the outdoor life and
lives up to the core values of the company. After every auction he
tries to have a happy seller and happy buyer.
Contact: 082 459 8877 or crossouw@auction.co.za
- Pieter Geldenhuys
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Pieter
is a qualified teacher and became a respected auctioneer after
completing his post graduate degree at the University of
Potchefstroom. His first auction position was in 1995, when he
became the regional manager of Seeff Auctions, Pretoria. In 2001 he
moved on and decided to further his career by becoming a
shareholder and director of Auction Alliance.
Pieter has since conducted some of the country's most high
value auctions and has a wide asset knowledge, conducting
sales as far as Namibia, Botswana and Swaziland. His largest
auction was the sale of almost 1 000 lots in Kleinzee, Northern
Cape, which he began at 10am in the morning and ended at 7pm in the
evening.
His career highlights include selling the assets of
a massive mine in Oranjemund, Namibia, and tearfully being
thanked by a widow for helping their family get value out of a
deceased estate sale in Volksrust.
Pieter's philosophy with all his auctions is to communicate with
transparency to both the buyer and seller. At the end of every one
of his auctions, he likes his clients to get the best possible
deal, thereby making a difference to their personal and
professional lives.
Contact: 082 808 1801
or pgeldenhuys@auction.co.za
- Willie van Rensburg
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Willie is
Auction Alliance's branch manager in Paarl, and is actively
involved in residential, commercial and agriculture property sales
in the Boland region. He is also the company's regional auctioneer
in the Boland, Swartland, Northern Cape, West Coast and Overberg
areas.
After completing a university degree and post-graduate studies at
the University of Stellenbosch, Willie began his teaching career in
1975. He taught at a well-known high school in George, staying in
the profession for seven years before his twin passions of farming
and auctions took hold.
He
joined Boland Bank in 1992 and operated out of Riversdale,
servicing regions such as Albertinia, Heidelberg and Stilbaai. A
brief stint at Seeff Auctions followed before he joined Auction
Alliance.
Willie's experience in farm and livestock sales is unrivalled in
the industry. This experience has led to concluded sales of some of
the most expensive farms in the Cape region.
Contact: 083 261 7641
or wvanrensburg@auction.co.za
- Franz Otto Bobbert
He started his career in the real estate industry after he qualified as an auctioneer at the South African College of Auctioneers in 1997. Franz specializes in the valuation of immovable property vested in insolvent estates before selling it on auction. Since 1997 he has done valuations of approximately 2 000 properties ranging from commercial farms, game farms, commercial-, industrial-, leisure- and residential property across South Africa for various Financial Institutions, SARS, Business Partners, Free State Development Corporation, Industrial Development Corporation, Agricultural Corporations, various attorneys, several liquidators and a number of private persons.
He has sold 80 % of all the above mentioned properties that he did valuations on, totaling an amount of more than R800 000 000.00 over 13 years. He started his career with Seeff Auctioneers in 1998 which became Auction Alliance in 2000. He was in charge of the Free State, Northern Cape and Northwest Provinces but often sold properties on auction in Kwa-Zulu Natal, Gauteng and the Eastern Cape.
With his great property knowledge and experience coupled with his strong business relationship in the Bloemfontein region. Franz adds extreme value and continues to grow the Free State region.
Contact: 083 630 5532 or FBobbert@auction.co.za