DAVID FURLONGER: What a year it’s been for the South African motor industry
It was the worst of times, it was the best of times — the overall new-vehicle market has confounded most predictions to outshine last year
23 December 2022 - 06:00
Queen Elizabeth II declared 1992 to be her “annus horribilis” after personal and family disasters made it a year to forget. King Juan Carlos of Spain (2007) and Ghanaian-born UN secretary-general Kofi Annan (2004) had their own, while some world leaders named Covid-ravaged 2020 as the world’s annus horribilis.
Some of you may remember how, in 1992, one English newspaper headline mistakenly dropped an “n” from the first of the two words, thereby creating an expression that, South Africans might say, succinctly sums up some of our political leaders and their appointees...
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