Toyota South Africa starts taxi assembly
Monday, July 09, 2012
Toyota South Africa has opened the R70-million Toyota Ses'fikile minibus taxi assembly line at its manufacturing plant at Prospecton in Durban, creating 300 new jobs, and the government is keen for other manufacturers to follow suit.
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