AFRICAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Respondent
Antoine F. Mulaba-Bafubiandi
University of Johannesburg, South Africa
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THABO MBEKI AFRICAN LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE, 03 September 2010, Pretoria, South Africa
Definition
African resource : Any asset belonging to Africa, for Africa
and can/should be managed by Africans.
This includes
- Human, technological, intellectual
-minerals, oil & gas,
Model based on
- land ,
-sea, water,
-environment, Culture, history,
-money, etc….
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Role players
Share holders
Licenses
Strategic means?
Policy
Government/regulators
Miners/operators
Sustainable cash
flow ?
Moral suasion
Local Community
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Selected Levers from role players
- Government can sale licenses, mining rights etc… and use this
money for the development of local community
- Government can set and enforce policies for the protection of
national assets, environment and local community
Licenses
Policy
Government/regulators
Moral suasion
Local community
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Selected Levers from role players
-Operators would pay taxes to government and government
issue them exploitation rights, alleviations, etc…
Government/regulators
Miners/operators
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Selected Levers from role players
-Operators built roads, schools, houses, hospitals; cities
-Operators provide local communities with work, wages/salaries,
etc…
-Local community provides work force to mines etc..
Miners/operators
Local community
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Selected Levers from role players
Operators satisfy shareholders
Shareholders
Miners/operators
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But what are these strategic means that local communities
have to make shareholders flow cash for their (i.e. local
communities) development, which is sustainable?
Shareholders
Strategic means?
Miners/operators
Sustainable cash flow?
Local community
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Selected Levers from role players
- Government can sale licenses mining rights etc… and use
this money for the development of local community
- Government can set and enforce policies for the protection
of national assets, environment and local community
-Operators would pay taxes to government and government
issue them exploitation rights, alleviations
-Operators may built roads, schools, mine houses, hospitals
-Operators provide local communities with wages etc…
-Local community provides work force to mines etc..
-Operators satisfy shareholders
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Role players
Share holders
Licenses
Strategic means?
Policy
Government/regulators
Miners/operators
Sustainable cash
flow ?
Moral suasion
Local Community
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What then?
What shareholders do for a sustainable development of local
communities?
-What strategic levers local community should have to “force”
shareholders listen to them and (help) address their needs?
Hence
-Education on resources; Education on resource management
-wake-up call about leadership
-Education on leadership concepts,
-Training on leadership skills
-Training in development skills; Training in relevant expertise
-Symbiosis and harmony between politics and economics
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Stumbling blocks include
- Ignorance of African resources by Africans
- Unconsciousness of Africans about their mineral wealth,
value and potentiality
- Non-experts signing national and international contracts
- Letting others to decide on Africa’s fate
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What then?
Should we look at African leadership concepts?
Or
leadership concepts for African (future) leaders?
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THANK YOU ! ! ! !
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Prof. Antoine F. Mulaba –Bafubiandi
Head: School of Mining, Metallurgy and Chemical
Engineering
Head: Mineral Processing and Technology Research
Group
POBox 526, Wits 2050, South Africa
Te.: 011 5596215, Fax: 011 559 6194
Email: amulaba@uj.ac.za
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