Lehlogonolo Masoga, Group Executive responsible for trade, investment, and industrialisation.
You can't keep a good man down! A consummate leader and intellectually pregnant trailblazer Lehlogonolo Masoga is a true testimony that keeping good man down is a futile exercise.
Limpopo Economic Development Agency (LEDA) has appointed the former inaugural CEO of the Musina Makhado Special Economic Zone, Lehlogonolo Masoga as the Group Executive responsible for trade, investment, and industrialisation. A seasoned administrator, former politician and scholar armed with three master degrees, Masoga has just recently completed his five year term at the helm of an ambitious industrialisation project revered by many in Vhembe district yet frowned upon by some minority within the green movement fraternity.
Although the MMSEZ is yet to take off the ground, Masoga is credited for laying a solid foundation by establishing the MMSEZ SOC entity and master planning the project business case. The visionary CEO has successfully conceptualised the storyline of the Far North industrial project and mooted the idea of utilising the MMSEZ as a catalyst for Limpopo’s economic development and integration of Musina and Makhado towns into a potential new city in Limpopo post-independence.
In welcoming Masoga into the LEDA fold, the Group Chief Executive Officer Mr Thakhani Makhuvha stated that “in the main, the position is responsible for Investment Promotion, Trade and Export Development, Sector Project Development, and Growth Sectors ensuring inclusive economic growth and job creation for Limpopo Province”. He further called upon all staff within the LEDA group to give Mr Masoga the necessary support.
When asked for comment Masoga said “I am pleased to have been afforded yet another opportunity to serve my people to improve their socioeconomic conditions and grow the economy of our province which is my passion”
Among the responsibilities of the newly appointed Group Executive are to support the successful implementation of the two special economic zone in Vhembe and Sekhukhune and to oversee the roll out of the Limpopo One Stop Shop (OSS) to provide support to investors to locate seamlessly in Limpopo. The appointment of the head of investment promotion follows hot on the heels of the recently held successful Limpopo Investment Conference which has attracted a whopping R120 billion investment pledges.
It is evident that the 7th Limpopo Provincial Administration under the stewardship of the foresighted and vibrant Premier Dr Phophi Ramathuba is on course to turn around the provincial economic fortunes. Premier Ramathuba has identified job creation through industrialisation as an apex priority for her term of office arguing that we cannot have a province endowed with agricultural and mineral resources, yet our people remain poor and underdeveloped.
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