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DRAFT REGIONAL INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY SOUTH AFRICA

DRAFT REGIONAL INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY SOUTH AFRICA “Promoting industrialization through partnerships”.

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DRAFT REGIONAL INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY SOUTH AFRICA

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  1. DRAFT REGIONAL INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY SOUTH AFRICA “Promoting industrialization through partnerships” This report is solely for the use of dti personnel. No part of it may be circulated, quoted, or reproduced for distribution outside the dti without prior written approval from the dti.

  2. SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF GVAper 50km MesozoneThe map below shows the heavily biased distribution of economic activity in South Africa with the majority of Gross Value Added (GVA) clustered around three major metropoles

  3. PROBLEM STATEMENT • Sharpest regional disparities at present are between the three main metropolitan complexes and the rest of the country • Three broad categories of regions are considered, these will be applied in determining potential impact scenarios for the RIDS: • 52 Districts and Metros, in the nine provinces • main services hubs of a wider functional region or macro-region, in regions where potential and latent potential exists. • main production complexes of a cluster or corridor of inter-related industries

  4. STRATEGIC INTENT OF RIDS • TO ENABLE ALL AREAS IN OUR SA ECONOMY TO ATTAIN THEIR OPTIMAL ECONOMIC POTENTIAL; • BY FACILITATING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT EMBEDDED IN A REGION/DISTRICT THROUGH LINKAGES WITHIN EXSTING AND LATENT INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC BASE

  5. STRATEGIC INTENT • To stimulate investments that will promote sustained high growth in a local community • To focus on a region’s potential and identify what local stakeholders can and need to do to ensure their local community reaches its potential • To assess a community’s comparative advantage, identify new or existing market opportunities for businesses, and reduce obstacles to business expansion and creation • To have an impact on the economic viability districts • To create new jobs, help communities retain existing jobs, help businesses access capital • To contribute to a broader national framework with a spatial dimension, in order to increase each region’s global competitiveness.

  6. UNEMPLOYMENT TRENDS • Source:Labour Force survey, September 2005

  7. GROWTH DISPARITIES…(%GDP)

  8. The dti’s APPROACH TO LED To bring together resources from within and outside the Community to address: • local governments’ challenges on land management practices, outdated infrastructure, limited business planning and management skills, poor access to markets and market knowledge, and • to promote economic growth in a systematic and organized manner at the local level To become a catalyst for promoting LED as a key ingredient to achieving broad-based and equitable economic growth by assisting: • the local community to research its own economic strengths, agree upon a common strategy (Regional Industrial Road Map) and organize itself to implement the strategy (Indicative Industrial Business Plan).

  9. LED INTERVENTION PROPOSITION • The dti, in conjunction with the dplg and the presidency will assist district municipalities to, • formulate their industrial road maps, • form local growth coalitions, • build local capacity and, • finalise local growth business plans • Each region’s respective plan can serve as a national development trajectory; promoted to guide all sector departments’ interventions in that region. • Bringing local stakeholders around one table in a form of a PPP helps to build trust, encourages innovation , fosters social cohesion, and thus decreases the risk of further conflict.

  10. RIDS’s THREE INTERLINKED GOALS

  11. INVESTMENT PROMOTION Trade and Investment South Africa Division (TISA) Promotes investment in the following sectors: • Agro-processing • Automotive • Aquaculture • BPO • Capital Equipment • Chemicals • Cultural Industries • Tourism • Mining & mineral beneficiation Hand-holds the investor (domestic and international) to ease the investment decision-making process Match-make the investor with stakeholders within areas of potential, where opportunities can be optimally exploited in the interest of all stakeholders involved Role of the RIDS Work closely with districts in ensuring some level of readiness/preparedness so that when a viable investment opportunity arises, that investment takes place on the district’s terms

  12. THANK YOU!

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