Limpopo Business 2017-18 edition
A unique guide to business and investment in Limpopo. Limpopo Business 2017/18 is the ninth edition of this highly successful publication that has, since its launch in 2007, established itself as the premier business and investment guide to the Limpopo Province. This edition of Limpopo Business is officially endorsed by the Office of the Premier of Limpopo. This book contains detailed insights into the plans of the Limpopo Economic Development Agency (LEDA) and the recently launched bus rapid transport system for the provincial capital, Leeto la Polokwane, together with a comprehensive register of all provincial government and municipal contact details. Investment news related to mining, telecommunications and tourism is carried in overviews of all the main economic sectors. To complement the extensive distribution of the print edition of the magazine, the publication is also available online at www.limpopobusiness.co.za.
A unique guide to business and investment in Limpopo.
Limpopo Business 2017/18 is the ninth edition of this highly successful publication that has, since its launch in 2007, established itself as the premier business and investment guide to the Limpopo Province. This edition of Limpopo Business is officially endorsed by the Office of the Premier of Limpopo.
This book contains detailed insights into the plans of the Limpopo Economic Development Agency (LEDA) and the recently launched bus rapid transport system for the provincial capital, Leeto la Polokwane, together with a comprehensive register of all provincial government and municipal contact details. Investment news related to mining, telecommunications and tourism is carried in overviews of all the main economic sectors.
To complement the extensive distribution of the print edition of the magazine, the publication is also available online at www.limpopobusiness.co.za.
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SPECIAL FEATURE<br />
company’s most recent life-of-mine expansion project<br />
will result in the mine producing until the 2040s.<br />
Soon after the announcement of the designation<br />
of the SEZ, the dti said that a consortium of Chinese<br />
investors, Sino, has agreed to put R40-billion into the<br />
Musina-Makhado SEZ where they will operate the<br />
mineral beneficiation operations.<br />
The first phase of this is to build a power plant.<br />
The dti estimates that the completed SEZ could<br />
create more than 20 000 jobs.<br />
Provision in being made in the planning phase<br />
for light, medium and heavy industry at the SEZ.<br />
A petrochemical zone is envisaged which could<br />
contain any or all of the following facililties:<br />
• coal-to-liquids plant<br />
• coking coal plant and power generation<br />
• methanol plant<br />
• synthetic bitumen plant<br />
• plasma waste gasification plant<br />
• water treatment plant.<br />
Tubatse SEZ<br />
Musina-Makhado SEZ<br />
In July 2016 the national cabinet approved the<br />
Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone (SEZ).<br />
Located in the far north of <strong>Limpopo</strong> in the Vhembe<br />
region, Musina-Makhado is strategically located<br />
near the border of Zimbabwe and on the Great<br />
North Road which links South Africa to the broader<br />
Southern African region.<br />
The location of the Musina-Makhado SEZ, with<br />
links to Zimbabwe, Botswana and Mozambique,<br />
promotes the Trans-<strong>Limpopo</strong> Spatial Development<br />
Initiative. Logistics will be one of the key focus areas<br />
of the SEZ.<br />
Other sectors to be concentrated on include<br />
agri-processing (Foskor has a plant in nearby<br />
Phalaborwa), energy and mineral beneficiation.<br />
Exxaro has coal- mining operations in the north and<br />
De Beers’ giant Venetia diamond mine is nearby. The<br />
A second application for an SEZ at Tubatse is pending.<br />
Tubatse is in the Sekhukhune District Municipality<br />
and hosts a number of mining operations.<br />
The SEZ in Tubatse will focus on the beneficiation<br />
of platinum group metals (PGM) and mining-related<br />
manufacturing. The province of Bashkortostan in<br />
Russia has also expressed an interest in the SEZs<br />
of <strong>Limpopo</strong>.<br />
Phase one of the SEZ project would see a 280ha<br />
site developed to accommodate:<br />
• a mining suppliers park<br />
• light manufacturing<br />
• heavy manufacturing<br />
• logistics<br />
• a solar energy cluster<br />
• a PGM beneficiation cluster.<br />
Among the products that might be produced at<br />
the SEZ are catalytic converters, hydrogen fuel cells,<br />
chemotherapeutic agents, wind turbine blades,<br />
platinum jewellery and photo-voltaic solar modules.<br />
Metal processing that holds potential includes the<br />
conversion of magnetite to pig iron and steel, magnetite<br />
to vanadium pentoxide and waste to titanium.<br />
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