SA car to 'resurrect' local vehicle assembly

Mureza's newly launched Prim8
Mureza's newly launched Prim8

Mureza Auto Company, a Johannesburg-based vehicle manufacturing start-up, is eyeing an expansion to Botswana where it plans to resurrect local car assembly and produce up to 500 units per month.

Botswana’s only vehicle manufacturer, the Hyundai assembly plant in Broadhurst closed doors on Wednesday January 12, 2000 throwing 900 citizen jobs into the street.

This was after South Africa successfully lodged a rules of origin complaint that the local plant did not qualify for favourable SACU duty provisions.

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