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South Africa: Limpopo Aligning Development Strategy to National Development Plan |
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www.sanews.gov.za |
| Source Date: |
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 |
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Electronic and Mobile Government, Citizen Engagement, Internet Governance
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South Africa |
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Feb 26, 2014 |
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Limpopo economic growth and development is anchored around three major competitive advantages which are mining, agriculture and tourism. The province is also rich in mineral deposits such as platinum, chrome, coal, and diamond.
Premier Mathabatha said mining had been a major contributor to both provincial and national Gross Domestic Product (GDP), however, the challenge had been insufficient labour absorption capacity of this sector.
He said a lack of infrastructure, especially water, rail and roads was a major impediment in the development of this sector to full potential. Also, the sector was not doing well in both its secondary and tertiary economy, particularly beneficiation of its products.
“Investment in skills development and infrastructure delivery requires our collective effort for mining to add value to the development of the economy of the province. To this end, we want to see mining houses adopting programmes in Further Education and Training (FET) Colleges or adopting the colleges themselves,” he said.
Agriculture
Limpopo is largely an agricultural province, producing 76% of the country’s mangos, 36% of its tea, 25% of its citrus, banana and litchis, 60% of avocados and 70% of its tomatoes.
“We are the second largest producer of potatoes in the country, accounting for 19% of South Africa’s total production,” said Premier Mathabatha.
However, the agricultural sector has declined in terms of its contribution to the economy by 3%.
“This has also affected the labour absorption capacity of the sector, hence the retrenchments and the decrease in the employment rate witnessed in the recent past. This decline is mainly attributed to such factors as the slow pace of land restitution and redistribution,” he said.
The premier said the provincial government took solace in the decision by government to review the ‘willing-buyer-willing-seller’ approach to land reform and called on people to take advantage of the extension of land claim deadline.
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South Africa: Limpopo Aligning Development Strategy to National Development Plan The Limpopo Provincial Government is in the process of reviewing and aligning its growth and development strategy to the National Development Plan to put the province on a higher trajectory of economic development This is according to Limpopo Premier Stanley Mathabatha who delivered his State of the Province Address at the provincial Legislature on Thursday The provincial government developed its growth and development strategy in 1997 as a framework to guide the province towards unlocking the potential of the economic competitive advantages
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