An automotive-anchored provincial economy
The Eastern Cape's economy runs on wheels — literally. VW's Kariega plant is one of the largest automotive assembly sites in Africa, Isuzu's Struandale operation anchors the Gqeberha commercial-vehicle belt, Ford's engine plant sits inside Coega SEZ, and Mercedes-Benz's East London plant is the OEM's only C-Class right-hand-drive production site outside Germany. Every one of those plants runs on multi-shift patterns that depend on organised worker movement, and every Tier-1 and Tier-2 component supplier around them runs on the same rhythm. Broadway Affiliated dispatches Eastern Cape contract transport for OEM and supplier employers under the same SLA structure, driver vetting and GPS reporting we apply in Gauteng and the Cape.
