Small independent businesses in the automotive industry are bracing themselves for an estimated 54,000 job bloodbath and about R450 million monthly revenue loss after the SA Police Service (Saps) decided to ban small scale panel beaters from repairing state vehicles.
The Saps has written a letter to its fleet manager WesBank informing it to stop giving its cars to the small businesses for repairs because they apparently take too long to fix them – a situation which the police says affects its mobility and response time to crimes
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