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Port Elizabeth and the Eastern Cape have lost the right to host the South African Automotive Week (SAAW), with Gauteng being selected as the host city for the 2014 event.
The event, which provides a significant economic boost for Nelson Mandela Bay, has been hosted in Port Elizabeth on the past two occasions.
In a letter to members of the working group on the project, SAAW Project Director Andrew Binning says it was resolved at a meeting in November that the Eastern Cape, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal were to be “formally engaged” with regard to the staging of the event.
He says this was to test their appetite to host and financially contribute to SA Automotive Week, adding that this would guide the location decision.
Binning says formal requests to this effect were sent out on December 10 last year with a request to feed-back willingness to host by January 15 at the latest, with the decision to be announced on February 15 this year.
As a result of this process, he says, Gauteng was awarded the right to host the event in October 2014 as it had “expressed a commitment to host and make a financial commitment equitable with the host partnership agreement.
(Source: Metrominute - to subscribe mail metminutes@iafrica.com)
