Independent Development Trust | Ninham Shand Bldg 33 Kellner St, Westdene, Bloemfontein 9301, Free State

The IDT is a Schedule 2 state owned entity which manages the implementation and delivery of critically needed social infrastructure programmes on behalf of government. The organisation reports to the Minister of Public Works who is the Shareholder representative. The IDT National Office is located in South Africa¿s capital, Pretoria, and has regional offices in all of the country¿s nine provinces. Our organisation was established in 1990 as an independent, grant-making trust. At its inception the organisation was allocated a grant of R2-billion by government, to support education, housing, health services and business development projects in poor Black communities. As a grant-making organisation the IDT supported approximately 8800 community upliftment projects during the first decade. After 1999, Since it establishment the IDT has delivered a combination of social infrastructure and social development programmes.