BUSINESS MAVERICK: Less jittery Toyota is back in business in Durban after authorities provide a ‘recovery roadmap’

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The Toyota Motor Corporation says its Durban factory will reopen on Tuesday, 20 July, just more than a week after it shut as rioting and looting spread across the city. It has been engaging with the city and the province, and raised concerns in a letter last week, but says local authorities have provided it with a ‘recovery roadmap’, assuaging its jitters.

Reopening the plant, which produces the Hilux bakkie, the Fortuner, the Quantum and the Corolla Quest, is a reassuring sign that the eThekwini Municipality is returning to normal – or what passes for “normal” in South Africa these days.

The precise details of the roadmap have not been revealed. But Toyota’s Prospecton factory outside Durban is a key employer in the region, with a workforce of 7,200, many of whom would have several dependants whose numbers have probably swelled owing to job losses linked to the orgy of destruction. So one would assume that the local government would have been at pains to reassure the company about the security situation and related issues.

in an emailed response to queries that “our focus as a concerned corporate citizen is to ensure that local government has a definite plan of action to protect jobs and investment”.

 

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Toyota raises red flags over its KZN business following riotsThe Japanese auto manufacturing giant has raised grave concerns over the business environment in KZN, following the incidents of vandalism, destruction of property and looting. There goes more jobs. Thank you ANCParliament ANCKZN for once again ruining, destroying and stealing whilst the fats cats steal more. And the same RET gang niehaus_carl MzwaneleManyi DZumaSambudla Duduzane__Zuma will whine endlessly about unemployment, yet they are the very reason for it. Go to safer regions that do not tolerate property destruction.
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