ABOUT MEGA

MEGA’s primary mandate is to foster the sustainable growth and development of Mpumalanga’s economy through its operational activities of Trade and Investment Promotion, Development Funding, Equity Investments, and Property and Infrastructure Development. The Agency remains accountable to the Mpumalanga Department of Economic Development and Tourism (DEDT). MEGA is the foreign investor’s or trader’s first point of contact for doing successful business in Mpumalanga Province. Through the Trade and Investment Promotion Division, the Agency provides a variety of services to potential investors and trading partners.

MEGA staff will go out of their way to make the process of investing in Mpumalanga or starting a business in the province easy. MEGA is focussed on customer needs and provides innovative solutions with a high level of service. Services include:

• Foreign Trade Promotion

• Investment Promotion

• Funding

• Property Management and Infrastructure Development

National government has articulated a Nine-Point Plan which seeks to prioritise projects that will tackle key economic issues. MEGA is aligned with the plan, which include issues relevant to growing the provincial economy:

• revitalise agriculture and the agro-processing chain

• advancing mineral beneficiation

• implementing the Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP) effectively

• unlocking the potential of SMMEs, cooperatives and township and rural enterprises

• resolving the energy challenge

• stabilising the labour market

• upscaling private investment

• investment in science and technology, water and sanitation, transport and broadband connectivity