About Blue IQ
Blue IQ Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd (Blue IQ) aims to deliver strategic economic infrastructure to catalyse sustainable economic growth and to contribute to job creation, to influence the composition of exports and influence the diversification of Gauteng’s GGP.
Blue IQ’s strategy is to be the leading agent in the province for development of strategic economic infrastructure as the key driver of economic transformation through its core mandate. The target sectors are aligned to the proposed industrial policy and sector strategies and the proposed interventions directly address the indicators set out by the Gauteng Department of Economic Development (GDED), such as the creation of decent jobs, increased localisation, exports and manufacturing of goods and increased economic growth by targeting labour absorbing sectors.
The GDED has also developed various strategic documents and policies like the Gauteng Employment Growth and Development Strategy (GEGDS) and the GDED strategy, to drive growth and development in Gauteng. The strategy of Blue IQ and its subsidiaries, considered these documents to ensure that there is alignment with the objectives of GDED and to ensure that Blue IQ makes a contribution to the delivery of the strategic objectives.
Blue IQ is therefore committed to unlocking the potential of key growth and development areas in Gauteng.
Our Vision
To be the premier partner in the development of strategic economic infrastructure for sustainable economic growth, improved job creation opportunities and facilitating socio-economic development in the Gauteng Province of South Africa.
Our Mission
Blue IQ invests in and commercialises strategic economic infrastructure projects in identified sectors with private and public partners, in line with provincial priorities. Guided by global best practice, we pioneer projects which ensure sustainable development returns for Gauteng.
State of the Province Address by the Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane , in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature
Madam Speaker,Deputy Speaker,
Members of the Executive Council,
Honourable Leaders of Political Parties,
Honourable Mayors,
Honourable Members of the Provincial Legislature,
Councillors,
Members of the Diplomatic Corps,
Distinguished guests,
The people of Gauteng,
It is a great pleasure and honour to address the opening of the Gauteng Legislature in Tshwane, the seat of government of the Republic of South Africa. We are here today not to protest or demonstrate against the inhumane system of apartheid which Pretoria came to symbolise. We are here to recognise the triumph of democracy over racial tyranny, national unity over separate development as well as the entrenchment of non-racialism and non-sexism as pillars of our democracy.Tshwane, as a liberated city, is now second only to Washington DC in hosting the largest number of foreign embassies in the world.
Close to where we are sitting lie the gallows which are a grim reminder of where we come from as the nation. It is the place where lives were lost for freedom, equality and justice for all. It is in this city where many of our heroes and heroines were given paupers funerals in the false belief that their memory would be totally obliterated from the nation's consciousness. It is in Mamelodi cemetery where the sacred remains of those who died at the hands of the apartheid hangman lie, together with those of the ANC President, the late Comrade Sefako Makgatho.
