{"id":880088,"date":"2026-10-16T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=880088"},"modified":"2026-10-16T09:50:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T07:50:32","slug":"new-rules-for-car-manufacturers-coming-to-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/880088\/new-rules-for-car-manufacturers-coming-to-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"New rules for car manufacturers coming to South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>South Africa will tighten vehicle-manufacturing rules to \u201cphase out\u201d the practice of importing cars as kits for assembly in the country, Trade Minister Parks Tau said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country will also stop providing policy support for any new semi-knock-down operations as the practice is called, Tau said in a statement on Thursday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will work to strengthen the legal definitions around what we determine as complete-knock-down manufacturing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SKD typically creates fewer jobs than full manufacturing and is usually for tax efficiency. Local manufacturers have long asked for changes to policy on SKD assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tau also said his department would investigate the light commercial vehicle sector that includes vans and pickups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have agreed that the strategic competitiveness of South Africa\u2019s ladder-frame LCV segment warrants formal investigation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mahindra &amp; Mahindra operates a semi-knock-down pick-up truck facility near Pretoria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa is planning to tighten its vehicle-manufacturing rules to prevent the importation of cars as kits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":849712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"posted","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"2110996928112578653","_sma_facebook_post_id":"191437357620492_2238866346933764","_sma_instagram_post_id":"18093092516680129","_sma_x_attempts":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[23090,15796,1998],"class_list":["post-880088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-department-of-trade-and-competition-dtic","tag-mahindra","tag-parks-tau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880088"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880110,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880088\/revisions\/880110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}