Impson Logistics
Insurance in Durban

We do this through strategic logistics management, the components of which are intricately interwoven and complex.
At Santova, we have embraced the power in unlocking supply chain data, facilitating multiple entry and access points, allowing data uploads and downloads and linking this all with powerful communication tools.
We are also able to cover all other risk outside of the marine and transport arena.

Santova Limited has its origins in 2002 when it listed on the Development Capital Market of the then JSE Securities Exchange. At this early stage the company acted solely as a Customs and Excise Clearing Agent for smaller traders of general goods as well as for exporters of fresh produce world-wide, including some of the largest exporters of deciduous and citrus fruit in Southern Africa. The process involved transforming the existing domestic based clearing and forwarding operations into a GLOBAL TRADE SOLUTIONS BUSINESS which assumes responsibility for the entire supply chain, from supplier (ex-works) to consumer (point-of-consumption). This move ensured the Group moved onto an international platform away from managing individual functions, to a role of assembling, integrating and managing activities into key supply chain processes. Most of his working career has been in the Tongaat Sugar company/Tongaat-Hulett group which he joined in He was appointed Financial Director of the Tongaat-Hulett group in 1978 and in addition was Executive Chairman of various operating divisions of the group and Vice-Chairman of Triangle Sugar Corporation in Zimbabwe. He is currently an independent non-executive director of Consolidated Infrastructure Group Limited, The Pivotal Fund Limited and South African Airways (SAA) and the Chairman of the Altech Finance and Risk Committee. Tony was Executive Director of the Institute of Directors for five years and for a number of years he provided the secretariat role to the King Committee, of which he was a member from 2003 to Over the last 28 years he has served on various boards of both listed and unlisted companies as Financial Director in the construction, mining and technology sectors. He is currently the Group Financial Director of a privately held industrial holding group. Ernest is a founding member and a shareholder in Igoda Projects, of which he has been the Chief Executive Officer since Ernest has also practiced as a consulting engineer for more than 15 years executing various projects from conceptual engineering designs, contract administration and business management. On completing his MBA at the University of Pretoria, Glen made a strategic career change and joined Investec Group Ltd where he headed both the Northern Transvaal and later the KwaZulu-Natal operations for a continuous period of twelve years, going on to be appointed divisional director of Investec Private Bank in Upon his resignation from Investec Private Bank in 2003, Glen joined Santova and has been instrumental in development of the Group over the last 10 years as CEO. Lance started his freight career in 1993 as a consolidator with a medium-sized company specialising in import and export consolidations. David is a Chartered Accountant and completed his articles with Deloitte in Durban in Prior to joining Santova David’s was the Chief Executive Officer of Gane Capital, a privately held company involved in specialised lending and asset management. Prior to this he was Chief Operating Officer of Investec Private Bank, Durban. Jenny began her career in Rhodesia in the early 1970’s working for an investment banking organisation where she gained wide experience in all aspects of company secretarial work. She emigrated to South Africa in 1975 and joined the Head Office of the same organisation where she enhanced her company secretarial experience and gained her Associate membership of the Southern African Institute of Chartered Secretaries, and subsequently became a Fellow of the Institute. In 1994 she moved to KwaZulu-Natal and after eight years as Office Manager of an Auditing Practice, left in 2002 to build her own company, Highway Corporate Services (Pty) Ltd, which provides outsourced company secretarial services to listed and unlisted companies. Andrew completed his BCom and LLB degrees at the University of Natal and thereafter he served his articles at Deneys Reitz Incorporated. During his articles he gained experience in maritime, commercial and labour law and on completion was admitted as an attorney. He left Deneys Reitz to join the Santova Group in early 2005 where he has served as Group Legal Adviser for the past 10 years.