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Tefo Mohapi- Founder & CEO of IAfrikan Digital

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SA To Open Smartphone factory in Durban.• A year after Ashish Thakkar, CEO of the Rwandan Mara Group, pledged at the government's inaugural Investment Conference to open a smartphone factory in SA, the facility will be officially launched on Thursday. The opening of the factory at the Dube Trade Port in Durban, to be presided over by President Cyril Ramaphosa, comes after the Mara Group launched two smartphones on Monday in Rwanda, which it described as the first “Made in Africa” models.
14 Oct 2019 12PM English South Africa Business News · Investing

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