The Manica Group is a member of the Walvis Bay Corridor Group and through its membership the Manica Group participates in the CATS program. The CATS (Commercial Advanced Training Scheme) is a joint initiative of the transport industry to obtain qualified and officially acknowledged forwarding merchants in the transport industry. Since 1985, the CATS-training programme is successfully established in South Africa.
The Manica Group interviewed all the proposed students and identified two students to assist and support during a two year dual vocational training system. They will rotate through all the business entities in the group get exposure on all the functions within the group. At a later stage they will be occupied in the operations to obtain first class in-house training on the freight industry.
Trudi van Rooyen, the General Manager: Human Resources, acts as their mentor, and they meet weekly to discuss topics and activities of the previous week.
On Fridays these students attend classes at the Polytechnic of Namibia in Windhoek and has to travel to and from Windhoek to attend the classes in Business Economics; Transport & Logistics; Economics; Commercial law; Accounting; Costing; Commercial Arithmetic; Basic IT-, Life- and study skills.
After two years the two students will receive a competency certificate after successful written and oral examinations. Our new students are Paul Garab and Naftali Naukushu.

The employees of Manica Group Namibia (Pty) Ltd take their responsibilities to the Namibian community to heart.
We want to be a valuable supporter within the communities where we are present, and to contribute to worthy causes wherever and whenever we can.
As part of this process, we have identified a system that will govern the way that we help others. A board of trustees was elected, being Riaan Lottering, Ferdinand Xamiseb, Wilhelm Kafidi, Silke Hornung and Trudi van Rooyen, representing the major Manica Business units. The board of trustees will meet quarterly to make decisions on which causes to support, and how best to support them.
Annually, our employees are asked to nominate the causes they would like to support. Each employee is asked to nominate one local cause and one national cause.
The results are used by the board of Trustees as guidelines to decide on the recipients in the form of goods to be donated to any needy cause. All participating employees will be continuously updated on the progress of the Trust and the donations distributed. No cash will be distributed to any cause, only goods as required.
No person other than those recipients will benefit from any of the funds accumulated in the Pandula trust fund.

Hundreds of people flocked to the Hosea Kutako Airport to get a glimpse of the world’s biggest freighter, the Antonov V-225 as it’s 32 wheels touched the runway on 10 January 2007.
The giant Antonov 225  was originally designed for the transportation of the Russian Space Shuttle”Buran”.
We are very proud to say that Woker Freight Services (Pty) Ltd,  a subsidiary of Manica Group Namibia, was appointed “as agent” for the Antonov 225.  The Antonov was chartered to deliver cargo of 112 Tons,   for the equally enormous “Greater Plutonio” Floating Production Storage Offloading Vessel (FPSO).  FPSO vessels are employed in offshore oil and gas explorations.
Woker Freight Services oversaw the customs documentation and smooth transhipment of 3 huge cables, of 37 tons each, and additional equipment.  Wesbank Transport was contracted to safely transport the cargo overland to Walvis Bay Rennies Consolidated,  a division of Manica Group Namibia, received the cargo for storage, before it was loaded onto the Greater Plutonio which arrived late January 2007.