Anna Cox GAVIN WYNGAARD has been appointed managing director of Sebenza Forwarding after four years with the company as general manager. He brings to the position 25 years of experience, having started out as an entry clerk. Wyngaard intends to grow the company by looking at potential parastatal business and further blue chip companies and by promoting Sebenza Forwarding through increased international exposure. The company was established in 1997 as the first black empowerment freight forwarding and shipping company in South Africa with Makana Trust currently holding a 55% shareholding. The trust was set up to address the plight of ex-political prisoners and their commercial interests. It now has branches in Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth and London, offering both international air and seafreight import and export forwarding, customs broker services as well as an international and domestic door-to-door courier service. Sebenza operates its own warehousing facilities and a national courier service. Project cargo in and out of South Africa and into southern Africa is one of its areas of expertise. It handled the full logistics operation for Fox News when the ex-President of the United States, Bill Clinton, paid a visit to South Africa
