AFRICAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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AFRICAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
Respondent

• Antoine F. Mulaba-Bafubiandi

University of Johannesburg, South Africa
THABO MBEKI AFRICAN LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE, 03
September 2010, Pretoria, South Africa
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• 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,
• land ,
• sea, water,
• environment, Culture, history,
• money, etc.

Model based on
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Role players

Share holders
Licenses
Strategic means?
Policy
Miners/operators
Government/regulators
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
Miners/operators
Government/regulators
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 Africas 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_at_uj.ac.za