South Africa’s motor industry at a crossroads
The sector needs radical, innovative policies to future-proof itself against an unpredictable world. Can policymakers deliver?
Being a motor industry executive these days is rather like having your birthday on February 29. Celebrations don’t come around very often. The past four months have shown a welcome recovery in previously miserable new vehicle sales — a shift that Mazda Southern Africa MD Craig Roberts says appears to be continuing in February — but after a brief bout of desultory flag-waving, life quickly slips back into an ongoing battle against regulatory and strategic odds.
Over the past few weeks, almost every motor industry pronouncement has been about the difficulty of operating in an unfriendly business environment...
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