South Africa: SA's Car Manufacturing System Could Help to Get SA's Industrial Development On the Road

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To great political applause, car company Nissan has said it will spend R3-billion on its plant in Rosslyn outside Pretoria to build the Navara model. Announcements like these regularly punctuate the news; it's all part of SA's grand Automotive Production and Development Programme, arguably the crown of SA's interventionist industrial effort. But if this policy is working so well -- and it does seem it is -- why is it not being applied to other sectors?

Japanese car company Nissan announced recently that it would be building a new model in South Africa, in this case, the Navara, a rather snazzy-looking bakkie, and as always that entails a wodge of new cash.

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