It builds on the successes achieved in areas such as automotive manufacturing, while seeking far closer partnership between government, industry and labour in developing and implementing master plans in each sector. Former Minister of Trade and Industry, Alec Erwin, on a plane flight to Cape Town just last year told me that he is working together with his Nigerian counterparts, to help them to establish an automotive industry. However, he says to me that the important thing about this is not so much that we are helping the Nigerians to establish their