SOUTH AFRICA

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 ...

Begins Major Marketing Campaign to Drive Sales Further During FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Chery has set a new benchmark for Chinese brands by selling more than 1 million vehicles in the first ten months of the year ending in October. The company recently reported 132 828 sales in October, ...

It goes without saying that failing to manage your fleet effectively can have a harmful impact on your organisation’s bottom line. A poorly managed fleet can hurt profits in many ways, including through increased fuel, and maintenance costs and increased potential for mismanagement. Effectively maintaining a fleet may be challenging, ...

For Domestic and Global Export Markets Ford Motor Company’s Silverton Assembly Plant in Pretoria is the third plant to commence production of the Next-Generation Ranger for customers around the world. The start of the Next-Gen Ranger production follows a major investment of US$1.05 billion (R15.8 billion) in Ford’s South African ...