SOUTH AFRICA

New Vehicle Market Registers 11th Consecutive Month of Year-on-Year Growth in November naamsa | The Automotive Business Council Thursday confirmed that it will be releasing the industry’s Thought Leadership Discussion Document on New Energy Vehicles [NEV] by the end of December 2022. naamsa CEO, Mikel Mabasa, said that the automotive ...

Mercedes-Benz South Africa Limited (MBSA) has effected a leadership change with Taryn Woodbridge taking over from  Klaus Eser as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Executive Director Finance and Controlling on December 1, 2022 following Eser’s retirement. Taryn thus makes history as  the company’s first female Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director ...

Bidvest Freight Head of Legal and Risk, Alison Wixley, highlights key issues endemic to South Africa’s landscape and how to plan for them   With continued threats to global supply chains, shoring up a business’s legal position is non-negotiable. When supply chains are stressed, as they have been for the ...

In a proactive initiative to help make our roads safer this festive season, the Vehicle Testing Association (VTA), a proud association of the Retail Motor Industry Organisation (RMI),  is offering motorists free safety checks between 28 November 2022 to 9 December 2022. Julian Pillay, national director of VTA, says although ...

Bridgestone announced earlier in the year that it had embarked on the Bridgestone 3.0 journey toward realising its 2050 vision of delivering accelerated social and customer value as a sustainable solutions company.   In order to achieve this vision, Bridgestone Southern Africa is setting up  a new management structure with ...

Former senior manager for External Affairs at Toyota South Africa Motors (TSAM), Nobuhle Renqe,  has joined the ISUZU Motors South Africa (IMSAf) senior executive team as the newly-appointed Department Executive for Corporate Planning, Strategy and Business Planning. She is coming on board with extensive knowledge of the manufacturing industry with ...

Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) is enhancing capabilities and resources of its Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) line of businesses to respond to growing customer interest in tailored solutions that complement traditional Property & Casualty products. With a realigned risk appetite and underwriting strategy, ART will target growth opportunities in ...

With road freight transport seeing a 48 percent  growth over the last decade, and heavy goods vehicles now making up 34 percent of all traffic on the country’s N3 highway, maintenance and repair of fleets is a high priority. One only has to consider the devastating number of fatal truck ...

Self-funding learnerships that benefit the sponsor as much as the learner For many companies, learnerships remain a grudge purchase and a tick-box exercise for B-BBEE compliance. But what if companies could make their learnerships self-funding? If, during the 12 months of the programme, their learners were to actually contribute to ...

ISUZU Motors South Africa is making commercial vehicle acquisition more accessible for entrepreneurs and small business owners on its Ready To Work line-up of commercial medium and heavyweight trucks. This is in a bid to get more small businesses to become active participants in the economy. Small to medium businesses ...