Mara Phones South Africa is on the verge of making a triumphant return in the smartphone market.
According to Sunday Times report, Lebashe Investment Group, Mabuti Radebe and Sylvester Taku are working together and they’re in talks with the new owners to revive the company and the brand.
Radebe told the publications, ‘they were close to signing export deals with telecom operators and independent retailers in two Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries and one nation in northeast Africa.’
The company hopes to bring back jobs as they plan to hire former employees. The new organisation said its operations would create around 1,500 direct and thousands of indirect jobs within six years.
It aimed to assemble high-quality smartphones at affordable prices for South African consumers, and its Mara X and Z smartphones sold for R3,000 and R4,000, respectively.
Taku, former managing director of Mara Phones South Africa said: he company would be able to fulfil its promise to do everything it can to save jobs, retain essential skills, and keep its manufacturing facility in KwaZulu-Natal through its partnership with the Lebashe Investment Group.
“The fact that we have secured the partnership of a tier-one raw material supplier will significantly improve margins and provide us with the capability of always having a broad range of devices with the latest specifications,” he said.
The new company’s first new batch of smartphones is likely to be ready by September 2022.
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