(24 Jun 2025)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tsakane, South Africa – 30 April 2025
1. Wide of mechanic Themba Maseko, and customers gathered around a car
2. Various of Themba Maseko working on a car engine
3. Wide of a man washing car
4. Wide of Themba Maseko working on car engine
5. Pan of car part
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Themba Maseko, mechanic:
"Most of the time you see I can leave and then go to Springs and see maybe to go and look for something, then spend hours in the queue only to find out what whatever you’re looking for is not there. So now with the Collective it’s going be much easier. I make a call, they look for spares for me and then they just bring it to me so it’s much better. I don’t have to go and stand in the queue."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Johannesburg, South Africa – 13 June 2025
7. Various of woman typing on a laptop getting an order confirmation for car parts
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brakpan, South Africa – 30 April 2025
8. Mid of mechanic and board member of Motor Spares Collective Sharief Bartus, working on a car engine in a garage
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharief Bartus, mechanic/Motor Spares Collective board member:
"Time is a big thing for a local mechanic. We lose time for 3-4 hours at a spares shop, where the cars could have been worked on. So if we can bring the spares to you, you can be productive. And at the end of the day, you can get more work out."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Johannesburg, South Africa – 13 June 2025
10. Various of a employee organizing car parts at a distribution workshop for delivery
11. Various of a dispatchers organizing and packing automotive parts for delivery
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Johannesburg, South Africa – 5 May 2025
12. Mid of Amanda Gcabashe working at her desk in her office
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Amanda Gcabashe, managing director of UBU Investment Holdings:
"This one (this initiative) is that you then bring them much closer, in that the owner is part and parcel of the wealth generation because they benefit from those services. And if you then extend it into the life of the mechanic, all of the mechanics we’ve spoken to and surveyed, everyone has to go and buy spares. So they’re consumers and we’re just flipping it around and saying, OK, here’s a vehicle where you can become a beneficiary from your own use and consumption because in any event, you have to buy spares."
14. Close up of Gcabashe’s hand using a computer mouse
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Amanda Gcabashe, managing director of UBU Investment Holdings:
"All of a sudden, you open up different opportunities about saying, once we have a significant number, we are able then to say (to) insurance companies, what are the products that we can offer this community who in the past would be totally left out? If you know in our communities, if somebody is skilled with their hands, which is what a mechanic is, when they pass away, you find that then the family moves into poverty. There’s no life cover. Why? Because life cover wants a, they want a pay slip from you."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Johannesburg, South Africa – 13 June 2025
16. Various of dispatcher and delivery driver exchanging a box with car parts for delivery
17. Mid of a delivery driver loading car parts onto his bike
18. Wide of delivery driver driving off
STORYLINE:
LEADIN:
Independent car mechanics in South Africa’s townships have long faced challenges accessing spare parts due the buying power of large urban car repair chains.
STORYLINE:
A look under the hood of the low-riding BMW 325i convertible shows that it needs a replacement part.
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