[Mechanic Themba Maseko, and customers gathered around a car]
[Themba Maseko working on a car engine]
[Man washing a car]
[Themba Maseko working on car engine]
[Car part]
Themba Maseko (interview): “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.”
[Woman typing on a laptop getting an order confirmation for car parts]
[Mechanic and board member of Motor Spares Collective Sharief Bartus, working on a car engine in a garage]
Sharief Bartus (interview): “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.”
[An employee organizing car parts at a distribution workshop for delivery]
[Dispatchers organizing and packing automotive parts for delivery]
[Amanda Gcabashe working at her desk in her office]
Amanda Gcabashe (interview): “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.”
[Gcabashe’s hand using a computer mouse]
Amanda Gcabashe (interview): “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.”
[Dispatcher and delivery driver exchanging a box with car parts for delivery]
[A delivery driver loading car parts onto his bike]
[Delivery driver driving off]
This script was provided by The Associated Press.