Abbreviations
BPA: Bisphenol A
CAGR: Compound annual growth rate
CAHF: Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa
CIPC: Companies and Intellectual Properties Commission
CSR: Corporate social responsibility
DEHA: Diethyl hydroxylamine
DFI: Direct foreign investor
DHS: Department of Human Settlements
ECOWAS: Economic Community of West African States
FRELIMO: Mozambique Liberation Front
FTA: Free trade area
ZMW: Zambian Kwacha
GNI: Gross national income
HDPE: High density polyethylene
ICT: Information and communication technologies
IMF: International Monetary Fund
IWMSA: Institute of Waste Management of South Africa
LDPE: Low density polyethylene
OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
PAYE: Pay as You Earn
PP: Polypropylene
PTY LTD: Proprietary Limited
PwC: PricewaterhouseCoopers
RENAMO: Mozambican National Resistance
SADC: South African Development Community
SDL: Skills Development Levy
S&P: Standard and Poor’s
UIF: Unemployment Insurance Fund
UN: United Nations
WGI: Worldwide Governance Indicators
ZAR: South African rand
Appendix 24
Figure 1. SADC members 24
Figure 2. Timeline of the SADC integration process 25
Figure 3. Ease of doing business by distance to frontier, SADC 26
Figure 4. Doing Business scores by topic, South Africa 27
Figure 5. SADC member state GDPs ($) 27
Figure 6. SADC member state GDPs per capita ($) 28
Figure 7. SADC member state annual GDP growth rates (%) 28
Figure 8. Selected economic indicators, South Africa, 2011-2020 29
Figure 9. Exchange rate, South African rand/US dollar, 2007-2017 29
Figure 10. Population growth, South Africa 30
Figure 11. Mozambique PEST 31
Figure 12. Ghana PEST 32
Figure 13. African construction sector, number of projects and continental share 33
Figure 14. Sources of construction project funding, Africa 34
Figure 16. Stakeholder map 35
Figure 17. Legal procedures to start a business, South Africa 36
Figure 18. Standard brick 36
Figure 19. Corner brick 37
Figure 20. Types of recyclable plastic 37
Figure 21. Plastic extrusion process 38
Figure 22. Housing affordability, South Africa 38
Figure 23. Housing affordability, Mozambique 39
Figure 24. Housing affordability, Ghana 39
Figure 25. Supply chain structure 40
Figure 26. Centre of gravity model 40
Figure 27. Major cities, roads, and ports, South Africa 41
Figure 28. Labor and time requirement to build one unit 41
Figure 29. Employee structure 42
Figure 30. Sales forecast 43
Figure 31. Materials costs forecast 44
Figure 32. Salaries forecast 45
Figure 33. Other costs forecast 46
Figure 34. Income statement 47
Figure 35. Cash flow statement 48
Figure 36. Franchising financial analysis, Mozambique 49
Figure 37. Franchising financial analysis, Ghana 50