{"id":57492,"date":"2026-10-14T15:15:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/potential-for-aftermarket-to-play-a-key-in-automotive-localisation\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:15:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:15:05","slug":"potential-for-aftermarket-to-play-a-key-in-automotive-localisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/potential-for-aftermarket-to-play-a-key-in-automotive-localisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential for aftermarket to play a key in automotive localisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RMI calls for retail and aftermarket to be recognised as integral to South Africa&rsquo;s automotive industrial strategy at SA Auto Week 2026<\/p>\n<p>South Africa&rsquo;s localisation ambitions must extend beyond the manufacture of new vehicles to include the retail and automotive aftermarket, which represent a substantial economic base, support hundreds of thousands of jobs and offer opportunities to strengthen local component manufacturing. This was a key message from the Retail Motor Industry Organisation (RMI) at SA Auto Week 2026, where CEO Ipeleng Mabusela participated in a panel discussion on localisation and the convergence of the automotive industry&rsquo;s value chain today.<\/p>\n<p>The RMI believes that the South African Automotive Masterplan 2035 (SAAM 2035 or any new or revised Automotive Policy, must explicitly recognise the retail and aftermarket as enablers of localisation and integral contributors to the automotive sector&rsquo;s growth, sustainability and transformation.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Localisation&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78861&#038;page=potential-for-aftermarket-to-play-a-key-in-automotive-localisation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RMI calls for retail and aftermarket to be recognised as integral to South Africa&rsquo;s automotive industrial strategy at SA Auto Week 2026 South Africa&rsquo;s localisation ambitions must extend beyond the manufacture of new vehicles to include the retail and automotive aftermarket, which represent a substantial economic base, support hundreds of thousands of jobs and offer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57493,"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\/Ipeleng%20Mabusela%2c%20CEO%20of%20the%20Retail%20Motor%20Industry%20Organisation%20(RMI)%20speaking%20at%20South%20African%20Auto%20Week%20(SAAW)%202026%20at%20the%20Durban%20International%20Convent.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Ipeleng%20Mabusela%2c%20CEO%20of%20the%20Retail%20Motor%20Industry%20Organisation%20(RMI)%20speaking%20at%20South%20African%20Auto%20Week%20(SAAW)%202026%20at%20the%20Durban%20International%20Convent.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57492","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=57492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}