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AFRICAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Antoine F. Mulaba-Bafubiandi

University of Johannesburg, South Africa

THABO MBEKI AFRICAN LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE, 03 September 2010, Pretoria, South Africa

Respondent

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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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Moral suasion

Policy

Licenses

Government/regulators

Local Community

Miners/operators

Share holders

Sustainable cash

flow ?

Strategic means?

Role players

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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

Local community

Government/regulators

Licenses

Policy

Moral suasion

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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..

Local community

Miners/operators

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Selected Levers from role players

Operators satisfy shareholders

Miners/operators

Shareholders

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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?

Local community

Miners/operators

Shareholders

Sustainable cash flow?

Strategic means?

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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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Moral suasion

Policy

Licenses

Government/regulators

Local Community

Miners/operators

Share holders

Sustainable cash

flow ?

Strategic means?

Role players

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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 ! ! ! ! !

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