{"id":22703,"date":"2026-01-21T14:57:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/angolas-opaia-launches-countrys-only-domestic-vehicle-assembly-plant\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:33:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:33:38","slug":"angolas-opaia-launches-countrys-only-domestic-vehicle-assembly-plant","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/angolas-opaia-launches-countrys-only-domestic-vehicle-assembly-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola&#8217;s Opaia launches country&#8217;s only domestic vehicle assembly plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angola&#8217;s Opaia Group opened a car assembly plant in Luanda on Tuesday, marking the resumption of vehicle production in the country to try to cut reliance on imports and expand local manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>Opaia is a privately-owned diversified group headquartered in Luanda that has focused on infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n<p>Its new subsidiary Opaia Motors will operate the newly commissioned assembly facility that has installed capacity to produce 22 000 light vehicles and 1 000 buses per year, Opaia said in a statement released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The facility is the only operational vehicle assembly plant in Angola and is a significant step in establishing the country&#8217;s burgeoning automotive manufacturing industry,&#8221; the company said.<\/p>\n<p>A China-funded vehicle manufacturing plant was established in the country more than a decade ago. It stopped production as economic conditions shifted and Opaia bought the plant&#8217;s assets.<\/p>\n<p>Opaia will import white-label vehicles for assembly and then sell them under the Opaia Motors brand, the company told Reuters in an emailed response.<\/p>\n<p>Buses will be supplied by Volvoand imported from Sweden, while passenger vehicles will be imported from China, where Opaia Motors has partnerships with Chery and Dongfeng Motor.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from reducing the country&#8217;s dependence on imported vehicles and raising the possibility of future exports, Opaia said it also planned to introduce electric vehicle production, although it did not say when.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22704,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-22703","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Opaia is a privately-owned diversified group headquartered in Luanda.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Opaia is a privately-owned diversified group headquartered in Luanda.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25913,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22703\/revisions\/25913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=22703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}