South Africa, Oct. 9 -- From the cars South Africans drive to the citrus they export, the dairy in their morning coffee, and the wind power shaping the country's energy future, Algoa Country is quietly powering some of South Africa's biggest industries.

Stretching from the Garden Route through the Eastern Cape to the Wild Coast, and inland through the Karoo, the footprint has become a strategic economic corridor where automotive manufacturing, agriculture, logistics, renewable energy, and tourism converge, attracting billions of rands in investment and cementing its role as one of the country's most influential business ecosystems.

Seventy-five years of 'the people's car' and other vehicles

Since the first VW Beetle rolled out of the p...