{"id":57128,"date":"2026-09-25T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/south-africa-joins-global-right-to-repair-community-at-automechanika-frankfurt\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T16:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:30:08","slug":"south-africa-joins-global-right-to-repair-community-at-automechanika-frankfurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/south-africa-joins-global-right-to-repair-community-at-automechanika-frankfurt\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa joins global Right to Repair community at Automechanika Frankfurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&rsquo;s Right to Repair movement was represented on the global stage this month when representatives of Motor Industry Workshop Association (MIWA) and Right to Repair South Africa (R2RSA) joined automotive aftermarket organisations from across the world at the Right to Repair Global meeting at Automechanika Frankfurt.<\/p>\n<p>MIWA National Director Pieter Niemand, National Chairman Dewald Ranft,  Les McMaster, MIWA Central Region Committee member  as well as Right to Repair CEO, Kate Elliott, accompanied by R2RSA Chairman, Gunther Schmitz represented South Africa at the international gathering, which brought together representatives from Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia and Oceania to exchange experiences, discuss developments in their respective markets and consider the future of independent vehicle repair.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was jointly hosted by FIGIEFA and the Auto Care Association under the theme &ldquo;Maintaining Engagement and Momentum&rdquo;, reflecting the continuing&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78723&#038;page=south-africa-joins-global-right-to-repair-community-at-automechanika-frankfurt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&rsquo;s Right to Repair movement was represented on the global stage this month when representatives of Motor Industry Workshop Association (MIWA) and Right to Repair South Africa (R2RSA) joined automotive aftermarket organisations from across the world at the Right to Repair Global meeting at Automechanika Frankfurt. MIWA National Director Pieter Niemand, National Chairman Dewald [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Global%20team.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Global%20team.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}