Infrastructure,_industrialisation_and_community_development_in_Africas_resource_rich_economies

In the 1994 democratic government, he was first Head of the Commission on the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) in the Gauteng Provincial Cabinet and then moved to Parliament. [...] The AfDB and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), in particularly through the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA), are also committed to addressing the continent’s infrastructure gap and see the importance of deepening regional integration as both a solution and a reward. [...] This is due to mining’s overwhelming presence in domestic economies, determining the size of the fiscus and the spending capabilities of local governments according to the industry’s performance. [...] South African companies in mining and related industries have considerable expertise in diverse areas of the industry from excavation to energy generation and we have the makings of a powerhouse of infrastructure delivery and the stimulation of economic linkages. [...] In South Africa, the story was no different as the British forced Africans to labour in the hot, damp and dark underground to bring tons of gold to the surface just a few kilometres from where their shanty towns mushroomed on the periphery of Johannesburg.