The Industrial Development Corporation, IDC, is being refocused to give a greater level of investment support in the markets. In the last year alone, the IDC funding help to develop a nickel self fix facility in North West, water chemical production facility in Free State and industrial park in the Northern Cape, expansion of an industrial stream facility in the Eastern Cape, a crude oil blending and storage facility in the Western Cape, a sodium sulphur facility in Mpumalanga, a new tourism infrastructure in Limpopo, a black