The Bank's twin priorities are infrastructure and the private sector both under the purview of the Vice-President for Infrastructure Private Sector and Regional Integration Mandla Sizwe Vulindlela Gantsho of South Africa...
Mandla Gantsho ADB Vice-President of Private Sector Infrastructure and Regional Integration explains: 'Most of these are regional projects...
The Vice-President for Infrastructure Mandla Gantsho argues from his experience in South Africa that many more big transport and energy projects could use private money alongside ADB finance even if some Western shareholders such as Belgium's Franciscus Godts are more sceptical about the value of public-private partnerships in Africa...
Also on the front line is the former Chairman of the Development Bank of Southern Africa Mandla Gantsho the Vice-President for Infrastructure Private Sector and Regional Integration a weighty brief...
Mandla Gantsho Vice-President Operations North East and South Africa: 43; chartered accountant; South-African; left post as Managing Director Development Bank of Southern Africa (Dvbsa) for ADB April 2006; at Coopers and Lybrand before becoming Dvbsa Chief Financial Officer 1995...
