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RAND HELPS KEEP FUEL PRICE RISE LOW THE Automobile Association (AA) expects petrol to increase by between nine and 16 cents a litre, diesel by up to 48 cents, and illuminating paraffin by 43 cents. The association said in a statement without the undervalued rand’s good performance during July, the increases
Four student teams get funding in latest Enactus Ford C3 round to solve local problems A TEAM of students from the University of KwaZulu-Natal will get a $5 000 (over R81 800) grant over the next 12 months in the seventh cycle of the Enactus Ford C3 national competition. The Ford C3 programme is part of the Ford Motor Company Fund, the philanthropic arm of Ford Motor Company that challenges students to design solutions for problems in their communities. The KZN team created an app called SmartGro to assist students by allowing them to order their groceries online and have them delivered to their residences. SmartGro will also have a feature which will provide financial literacy and budgeting workshops to students who are financially illiterate, alleviating poor financial manage-
ment, which is a contributor to food insecurity. SmartGro will also offer student businesses and universitybased projects a platform to sell products. At the Central University of Technology in Bloemfontein students partnered with an agricultural co-operative to plan home gardens. The Rhodes University team started the Grahamstown E-Bikes project that rents out of electric bicycles. The University of Mpumalanga team designed a system to recycle plastics to fuel using pyrolysis. Last year, the Mangosuthu University of Technology team near Durban won a Ford C3 grant to install solar panels and DIY rechargeable lights in a local community centre. — WR. The UKZN student team that created an app called SmartGro to assist students by allowing them to order their groceries online and have them delivered to their residences.
TOYOTA WINNERS TWO boys from KZN each won a PS4 and R8 000 in cash through Toyota South Africa Motors’ 2020 Toyota Dream Car Competition. The competition asked three age categories — U8s, 8-11 and 12-15 — to sketch mobility solutions of the future and explain their inspiration. Pictured is a drawing by Zaakirah Alli from Mount Edgecombe, winner of the 12–15 age group. He envisioned a car for people with physical disabilities. Said Zaakirah, ”It can be entirely controlled by your mind or a lever. Wheels in, rocket mode activated and reach
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Hino Pietermaritzburg still champion Hino Pietermaritzburg bested Hino Pinetown and Unitrans Volkswagen Commercial in Alberton to win the commercial vehicle category of the MSX National Automobile Dealers’ Association (NADA) Business of the Year awards for the third year running. Pictured are Hino Pietermaritzburg’s winning team: Pretesh Singh, dealer principal; Veeren Sankar, service manager; Nathaniel Balliram, parts manager; Kevin Naicker, sales manager. Now in its 22nd year, the MSX NADA awards honour the performances of the managers and their teams at motor dealerships countrywide. It is the only independent validation of these dealerships’ profitability. Dealer principal Singh said his team did nothing special to repeat their successes of 2017 and 2018, other than the ongoing use of ‘Kaizen’ — Japanese for making continual improvements. ‘We aimed to improve each aspect of our business over 2018 and this strategy paid off handsomely,’ he said. ‘Regular communication between all the people in the dealership is a way of life and includes structured, weekly meetings involving the parts supervisor, service manager, administration supervisor, all three salespersons and the dealer principal. I am always open to suggestions of improvement from my team membersthe dealer principal at Bidvest McCarthy Hino Pietermaritzburg. PHOTO: ALWYN VILJOEN
very happy to see my car driven by me one day as I would like to be a racer,” he said. Sahasra Kalakonda from Midrand won the 8–11 category with a “Super Solar Car”.
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‘I too can conquer the world’ is one of the messages on Zaakirah Alli’s vision for a car made for people with disabilities. for the stars!” Khwezi Mhlawuli from Durban is the U8 Category winner. “I would like to see young kids playing with the car I drew and in toy stores and I would be
would have been higher. The AA advised motorists further increases are possible amid the current economic turmoil. Fuel prices are adjusted on the first Wednesday of each month, which means motorists have until midnight of the first Tuesday to tank up at old prices. — WR.
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