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[TOP STORY] SA’s auto industry faces a competitiveness crisis

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‘The domestic market is really important for the future of our auto industry, and the market has performed terribly for a long period of time now,’ says Dr Justin Barnes executive director of the Toyota Wessels Institute for Manufacturing Studies.

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