Toyota South Africa Motors CEO Andrew Kirby. Image: Toyota South Africa’s motor manufacturing industry is on a path towards structural decline that mirrors the country’s broader deindustrialisation trend, Toyota South Africa Motors CEO Andrew Kirby has warned. Speaking at Toyota South Africa’s annual State of the Motor Industry briefing on Thursday, Kirby painted a picture…
The author, President Cyril Ramaphosa. Image: GCIS South Africa has a well-established car manufacturing industry that’s more than a century old. It has proven to be one of the most resilient sectors of our economy. Since the first assembly plants were established in the Eastern Cape in the 1920s, the automotive industry has grown to…
This Monday, TechCentral will launch the first episode of an exciting new motoring show called Watts & Wheels. The show, hosted by motoring journalist and “buzzhead” William Kelly and TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod, has a special focus on the shift to electric motoring, a space that’s still relatively new in South Africa but which is…
