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sheets, structural steel products, and galvanizing
roofing sheets in east and central Africa. It has state
of the art manufacturing and processing plants in
Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda, and Mozambique with
an aggregate production capacity of 350,000 Tons
per anum.
All products are sold under the brand “KIBOKO.”
The company is TBS approved, and it is an ISO
14001: 2004 & OHSAS 18001 : 2007 certified
company. Its products are up to international stan-
dards, competitive in price, and made from high-
quality steel imported from leading steel companies
around the world. These products are sold through
nationwide dealers and warehouses as well as ex-
ported to neighboring countries.
The company produces roofing sheets for com-
mercial, industrial and residential buildings as well
as corrugated and Inverted Box Rib (IBR) roofing
sheets in plain and color formats by using the lat-
est technology and design methods. The company
also offers ridges, flashing, valleys, and bull nose
profiles.
Southern Cross Motors Limited
14100 Kafue Road
P.O. Box 33670, Lusaka
Tel: +260 211 844 778
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The company has invested heavily in all workshops
to make sure the staff has been fully trained and has
the special tools required. Its workshops are now
recognized as the market leader in the country and
credit must go to the managers in each department.
On top of this the company has a state of the art
body shop that is as good as any modern facility
today. However, without the back up of the spares
Department it would not be able to provide the high
level of service.
Southern Cross has very active sales terms for all
brands, not only in Lusaka but throughout the Cop-
perbelt. In the drive to continuously improve its qual-
ity of service, three specialist vehicles have been
added to the company list fleet.
The unmatched quality of every part ensures uncom-
promising reliability, cost effectiveness, and long ser-
vice life of each vehicle. Every part is developed and
tested in the laboratory and on test vehicles to en-
sure that it fits well and is perfectly coordinated with
the thousands of other parts comprised in the basic
design of the vehicle. Thorough inspections during
manufacturing ensures high-quality, uniform parts.
Tata Zambia Limited
Mutale
General Manager
Lusaka Plot 9219 Ben Bella Road
P.O. Box 30074, Lusaka
Tel: +260 211 287 160
Fax: +260 211 286 081
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The Tata Group is one of India’s largest and most
respected business conglomerates. It is a leading
name in the engineering, agriculture, hotel, and tex-
tile industries. Tata Zambia has a vehicles division, a
general trading division, a mining division, and prop-
erty division.
Tata first began by operating Luangwa Industries,
a bicycle manufacturing company. Tata Zambia ran
the company from 1987 to 1997 before it was ac-
quired in its entirety. This is now the bicycle division
of Tata Zambia, manufacturing the
Eagle’ roadster
and sports bicycles.
Another Tata Zambia enterprise is the Taj Pamodzi
Hotel, managed by the Taj Group from 1990 to 1996,
when Tata Zambia bought a 70 percent stake in the
hotel. It is now a publicly limited company with the
remaining 30 percent of the company shares held by
the Zambian public and institutions.
Its textile division, Townap Textiles, is based in Liv-
ingstone and makes shirts, suits, bedsheets, towels,
and other fabrics. The agricultural division, MATCO,
distributes tractors from India and other agricultural
and irrigation equipment.
An additional company, Tata Farms and Foods, was
established in 1989. This subsidiary grows field
crops such as maize, wheat, other vegetables, and
roses on a 500-hectare plot in Ngwerere, near Lu-
saka.
Mining is the mainstay of the Zambian economy and
Tata Zambia taps into this industry by supplying a
