MEET THE TEAM

Andre Zietsman

Managing Director

Andre has been involved in the construction industry for 20 plus years. From 1993 to 1999 he was employed as Workshop Manager with Tarphalt Paving (Pvt) Ltd. 

In January 2000 he purchased the bulk bitumen transport business, Senatar Transport, from Tarphalt Paving. After relocating his entire operation to Bulawayo he built this business up to the stage where there were 18 tankers in the fleet delivering bitumen to customers in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Mozambique. 

In 2006 he founded Senatar Express, a cross border bus service operating between Johannesburg and Bulawayo. He also went into commercial property development where he purchased a sizeable piece of land and built a shopping mall. 
 

Looking for new ventures and challenges he sold all his businesses in August 2010 and bought a fleet of armored cash in transit vehicles which he hires out to a local security company. 

He also imports his own branded products which he sells to the local market as well as being in a joint venture with another Zimbabwean company which supplies and erects prefabricated buildings. 
 

Duncan Smith

Contracts Director

Duncan has over 40 years experience within the construction industry in Zimbabwe with almost 30 of those years being with Bitumen Construction Services (Pvt) Ltd of which he spent the last 6 of those 30 years as Managing Director. 

During the course of his career with Bitcon he held various posts within the company notably Bulawayo Manager, Botswana Manager, General Manager (Construction) based in Harare and finally Managing Director.