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“Slaughtered and Soured”: NEV Cowards Drown South Africa’s Beloved Motoring Titans in Toxic Inertia

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Toyota SA CEO: NEV inaction will cost South Africa its motoring industry - Andrew Kirby
Toyota South Africa Motors CEO Andrew Kirby. Image: Toyota

BREAKING: SOUTH AFRICA’S ENTIRE AUTO INDUSTRY ON DEATH ROW AS GOVERNMENT SLEEPS AT THE WHEEL. Toyota’s top boss has unleashed a BOMBSHELL warning: the nation’s proud manufacturing heritage is facing a MASSACRE, and green energy paralysis is holding the executioner’s axe.

Toyota South Africa CEO Andrew Kirby has SHATTERED the illusion of a healthy industry, exposing a CARNAGE waiting to happen. While sales figures provide a pretty facade, the HARD TRUTH is a ticking time bomb of dependency and decay. A shocking 81% of exports go to Europe—a market that is about to SLAM ITS DOORS SHUT on South Africa’s gas-guzzling dinosaurs.

The EU and UK’s aggressive zero-emission mandates are a DEATH SENTENCE for a country that produces practically NO competitive electric vehicles. Kirby’s chilling prophecy: “We are most likely, over the next five years, going to see significant decline in exports.” This isn’t a prediction; it’s an OBITUARY for hundreds of thousands of jobs.

Meanwhile, the political elite fiddle as the engine of the economy BURNS. Kirby exposes a nation “prematurely deindustrialising,” its own policies acting as FUEL for its industrial funeral pyre. CEOs are now forced to BUILD THEIR OWN DAMS just to keep plants running, while the state offers NOTHING but empty promises and logistical chaos.

This is more than an industry warning—it’s a DISTRESS FLARE for the entire South African economy. The time for polite discussion is OVER. The chilling question now is whether this pivotal sector will be the next corpse in South Africa’s graveyard of industrial might, sacrificed on the altar of incompetence and inaction.

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