The SAPOA Lifetime Industry Award is one of the highest honours bestowed by SAPOA, celebrating a lifetime of dedication, visionary leadership, and enduring influence that has helped shape and elevate South Africa’s commercial property industry.
This prestigious award recognises exceptional individuals whose careers have left a profound and lasting impact on the sector over several decades. It honours pioneers and industry leaders who have contributed significantly to the growth and advancement of the office, retail, industrial, and mixed-use property markets.
Through this Award, SAPOA reinforces its commitment to professionalism, transformation, sound governance, and the continued growth of the property industry by highlighting exemplary role models. It recognises pioneers and stalwarts whose contributions have helped shape, build, and formalise the commercial property landscape in South Africa.
Presented every three years at the SAPOA Annual Convention, candidates are nominated by their industry peers, with the final recipient ratified by SAPOA’s Lifetime Achievement Awards Committee.
Meet the Judges
Head: Business Efficiencies, Property and Sustainable Impact at Standard Bank’s Insurance & Asset Management Business Unit
CEO, SAPOA
Dr Sedise Mosenke, CEO, Encha Group
Managing Director, DeeKev Properties (Pty) Ltd
Recipient of the SAPOA Lifetime Achievement Awards
2016 Winner
Neil Gopal, CEO – SAPOA, Norbert Sasse, Group CEO, Growthpoint Properties (Winner), Kevin Roman, Managing Director – DeeKev Properties (Pty) Ltd, Amelia Beattie, Head: Business Efficiencies, Property and Sustainable Impact at Standard Bank’s Insurance and Asset Management Business Unit, Dr Sedise Mosenke, CEO, Encha Group
2019 Winner
Neil Gopal, CEO – SAPOA, Saul Gumede, Group Chief Executive Officer, Dijalo Property Group (Winner), Kevin Roman, Managing Director – DeeKev Properties (Pty) Ltd, Dr Sedise Moseneke, CEO, Encha Group, David Green, CEO, ProAfrica Property Services
2023 Winner
Neil Gopal, CEO – SAPOA, Ian Douglas Watt, Principal, Retail Xpressions (Winner), Amelia Beattie, Head: Business Efficiencies, Property and Sustainable Impact at Standard Bank’s Insurance and Asset Management Business Unit, Kevin Roman, DeeKev Properties (Pty) Ltd, Chair – Regional Council Western Cape
