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TelkomUseless
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Man , I can only laugh at this 'car makers'.
I so want to send them a mail, telling them fck off. They ripped us for so long... karma is a btch!
I so want to send them a mail, telling them fck off. They ripped us for so long... karma is a btch!
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About damn time. There will be hell to pay when job losses become a possibility. The unions won't take this lying down.
Maybe then there'll be pressure to remove their protection and they'll be forced to compete properly.
Maybe then there'll be pressure to remove their protection and they'll be forced to compete properly.
I feel sorry for the workers. It is true that Chinese/Indian labour is dirt cheap, but here not so much.
On a recent tour of the VW factory in PE, the tour guide told me that they employ around 200 people to do the same job as 4 robots do in Germany.
On a recent tour of the VW factory in PE, the tour guide told me that they employ around 200 people to do the same job as 4 robots do in Germany.
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Maybe they should invest in some of those robots.
Brawler
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Juliass will have a fit.
The_Unbeliever
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Wonder how will Malema insult those robots? 
The hole country suffers for the 35000 workers in the car industry to keep their jobs. As far as i know any company/industry that can't produce an item at a cost the customer can afford the company/industry shouldn't exit.
But ya, if you look at local steel/iron plants, they've been caught with price inflation/fixing, the car industry had been caught as well. No wonder the industry is in such a state.
That new Tata worldcar is worth R18000 and what i heard they wanna sell it in SA for a measely R45 -R50k.
Die you b@sterts.
But ya, if you look at local steel/iron plants, they've been caught with price inflation/fixing, the car industry had been caught as well. No wonder the industry is in such a state.
That new Tata worldcar is worth R18000 and what i heard they wanna sell it in SA for a measely R45 -R50k.
Die you b@sterts.
This is nothing new.... every few years the car manufacturers (through NAAMSA) find something else to bitch and moan about.
The local manufacturers have been busted for price fixing and fined record amounts, yet car prices have never come down. The annual increases have propped up an artificial second hand market and now everything is on stilts to the degree that really the only people able to afford cars are companies with big budgets, government officials and of course car allowance recipients.
The local manufacturers have been busted for price fixing and fined record amounts, yet car prices have never come down. The annual increases have propped up an artificial second hand market and now everything is on stilts to the degree that really the only people able to afford cars are companies with big budgets, government officials and of course car allowance recipients.