Launch Of Mara Phone Plant Is Helping Change Narrative That Africans Are Only Consumers Of Goods

Riyaz Patel

The programme of reviving the South African economy is beginning to bear fruit, President Cyril Ramaphosa has said, officiating at the much-anticipated launch of the Mara Phone manufacturing plant at the Dube Trade Port in Durban.

Mara’s debut comes 12 months after company CEO Ashish Thakkar announced at the inaugural Africa Investment Forum in November last year that the company would invest R1.5bn in a South African business venture over the next five years.

The Rwanda-based Mara group today took the President on a tour of the modern state-of-the-art plant at the Dube Trade Port Special Economic Zone.

The plant