EAST / CENTRAL AFRICA

    Nominations are now open for nine youth leaders to represent the Commonwealth’s 1.4 billion young people on the Commonwealth Youth Council. The Commonwealth Youth Council is seeking candidates for its executive positions to serve from 2020 to 2022. Candidates must have at least three years of experience working with ...

  The Kia XCeed urban crossover and the ‘Imagine by Kia’ concept have been awarded with prestigious 2020 iF Design Awards. Both vehicles demonstrate Kia Motors Corporation’s design-led approach to product development, and the brand’s evolution in an age of electrified mobility. Winning a prize in the ‘Professional Concept’ category, ...

  Weststar Associates Limited, the authorised general distributors of Mercedes-Benz in Nigeria, has made it to the final list of this year’s General Distributors Awards organised annually by Daimler Commercial Vehicles Conference Middle East & Africa (MENA). This award category recognises general distributors within the African markets that have performed ...

  The Isuzu D-MAX range has been expanded in South Africa with five new automatic models added to the line-up, giving its proven and dependable bakkie even greater driving comfort and convenience. Headlining the expanded product portfolio is the eye-catching, lifestyle-oriented Isuzu D-MAX 250 X-Rider, which is now available in ...

Upgrades and modifications to the Isuzu Motors South Africa (IMSAf) production plant in Port Elizabeth are currently underway, as the facility gears up  for the production of the seventh generation Isuzu D-MAX bakkie. Late last year,  Isuzu Motors Limited of Japan confirmed that the company would be investing R1.2 billion ...

Kia Motors Corporation and UEFA have announced the return of the UEFA Europa League Trophy Tour for 2020, following a triumphant first season in 2019. With this announcement, from February to May, the UEFA Europa League Trophy Tour Driven by Kia will visit several European cities to collect football boots ...

  Isuzu Motors South Africa in Port Elizabeth has started supplying knocked down (KD) Isuzu D-MAX pick-up kits for assembly purposes to its Isuzu manufacturing facility in Kenya. This represents the first intra-continental regional trade exchange of its kind for Isuzu on the continent and is aligned to its strategy ...

Renault has renewed the entire Megane range as it has unveiled the 2020 New Mégane, an emblematic range that has been renewed as well as the Megane E-Tech Plug-in. Over 7 million units of Megane have been sold worldwide, over four different generations, since 1995. The New MEGANE: ever more ...

Lexus on Monday announced its 2019 global sales results with growth in China’s luxury market driving the 10  per cent increase recorded for the year compared to the previous year. In fact, the global sales for January-December 2019 marked a new annual record high of 765,330 units. The well-received UX ...

  Toyota South Africa Motors (TSAM) said it is boosting the country’s struggling economy with a cumulative R4, 28 billion investment between 2019 and 2021. This was disclosed during  its third edition of the State of the Motor Industry (SOMI) address which held in Kyalami last week. The current wave ...