{"id":57287,"date":"2026-09-30T20:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/from-boardroom-to-show-floor-automechanika-johannesburg-2026-is-where-south-africas-automotive-conversation-turns-into-business\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T20:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:00:05","slug":"from-boardroom-to-show-floor-automechanika-johannesburg-2026-is-where-south-africas-automotive-conversation-turns-into-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/from-boardroom-to-show-floor-automechanika-johannesburg-2026-is-where-south-africas-automotive-conversation-turns-into-business\/","title":{"rendered":"From boardroom to show floor: Automechanika Johannesburg 2026 is where South Africa&#039;s automotive conversation turns into business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After industry leaders set the agenda in Cape Town, the aftermarket meets in Johannesburg from 27 to 29 October 2026 to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>Investment, policy and affordability dominated the discussion when automotive, investment and economic leaders gathered in Cape Town for Messe Frankfurt South Africa&#039;s latest Automechanika CEO Breakfast. In four weeks, the industry gets the chance to act on it.<\/p>\n<p>Automechanika Johannesburg takes place at Gallagher Convention Centre, Midrand, from 27 to 29 October. It brings together the automotive aftermarket and the service and repair sectors to explore the technologies, business connections and ideas currently shaping mobility.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted at the Nedbank Clocktower Building at the V&amp;A Waterfront, the breakfast delivered a clear shared message: South Africa can secure a competitive, sustainable automotive future only by aligning policy, investment, regional value chains and consumer realities.<\/p>\n<p>Marc Dunnink, Head: FDI at the Cape Town &amp;&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78760&#038;page=from-boardroom-to-show-floor-automechanika-johannesburg-2026-is-where-south-africa-s-automotive-conversation-turns-into-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After industry leaders set the agenda in Cape Town, the aftermarket meets in Johannesburg from 27 to 29 October 2026 to make it happen. Investment, policy and affordability dominated the discussion when automotive, investment and economic leaders gathered in Cape Town for Messe Frankfurt South Africa&#039;s latest Automechanika CEO Breakfast. In four weeks, the industry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57288,"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\/1280WhatsAppImage2026-09-29at09_33_53.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/1280WhatsAppImage2026-09-29at09_33_53.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57287","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=57287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}