Zambezi Motors unveils homegrown mobile clinics
Friday, March 01, 2019
The new state of the art mobile clinic PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG
Established in the early 1980s, Zambezi Corporation specialises in automobile retail, parts, service on a dealership basis, as well as water supply and treatment. The citizen-owned group is also active in the hospitality industry, with a hotel, lodges and game farming ventures.
Group founder and director, Ishmael Nshaka said Zambezi Motors would now pioneer vehicle assembly through the manufacture of specialised vehicles, starting with the mobile clinics. Manufactured under the group’s Zambezi Motors division, the group’s first mobile clinic unit took up to ten weeks to complete and will be shipped off to Tanzania.
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