Limpopo Business 2017-18 edition

MESSAGE
A springboard for regional
integration and commerce
Mr Benjamin Mphahlele, Managing Director of the
Limpopo Economic Development Agency.
the continent’s largest economies, and bordering as it does Botswana,
Zimbabwe and Mozambique, Limpopo Province enjoys a perfectly
natural geographical advantage to enhance regional integration towards
the manifestation of African Agenda 2063, with the ideal of “an
integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens
and representing a dynamic force in the global arena.”
Benjamin Mphahlele
The African continent and African
economies present massive investment
opportunities in terms
of large infrastructure projects,
innovative and renewable energy
sources, as well as large markets
that encompass retail, commodities,
ICT, manufacturing, arts and
culture, travel and tourism, transportation
and logistics, and other
sectors. As a province in one of
LIMPOPO PROVINCE HAS A PERFECTLY
NATURAL GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE
TO ENHANCE REGIONAL INTEGRATION
TOWARDS THE MANIFESTATION OF
AFRICAN AGENDA 2063 WITH THE IDEAL
OF “AN INTEGRATED, PROSPEROUS
AND PEACEFUL AFRICA, DRIVEN BY ITS
OWN CITIZENS AND REPRESENTING A
DYNAMIC FORCE IN THE GLOBAL ARENA.”
As a lead economic development agency for Limpopo, the Limpopo
Economic Development Agency (LEDA) is best positioned to articulate
and drive the following:
• Working with its shareholder, the Limpopo Provincial Government,
to implement provincial economic strategy in the context of the
National Development Plan and the cluster-based Limpopo
Development Plan
• Establishing the industrial cluster fora necessary to create and
accumulate the required social capital, thus creating a common
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