Madam Deputy Speaker, I move without notice:
That the House -
1) notes that Volkswagen South Africa has been awarded a R12 billion component export contract, which will boost the South African automotive component manufacturing industry;
2) further notes that the contract is to supply the Volkswagen Group with diesel particulate filters, DPFs, for the next five years and that this is the biggest export contracts for a single part ever awarded to the company;
3) believes that the contract will secure over 100 jobs in the Nelson Mandela Bay region in the Eastern Cape where 80 per cent of the parts would be manufactured; and
(4) welcomes this initiative and believes that it will go a long way in strengthening the automobile and components sector as well as developing local industries and accelerating decent work opportunities.
Agreed to.