Our Story

Makoya employs rigorous design, testing, implementation and measurement of specialised, real-world mobility solutions.

The Makoya business values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, economic responsibility and stewardship guide us in everything we do as we strive to invest in our people, the economy and our nation.

Making a tangible difference to your business is our main aim. At Makoya, excellence is its own reward.

“The name Makoya hails from the townships in South Africa and is an informal term for the ‘Top Guru’. We want to be known as the trendsetter and we strive to be acknowledged as pioneers”

– Kenny Malgas

Growth Milestones

Makoya has been a preferred coal loader for Transnet Rail Freight, and Eskom, the South African public power utility, since 2008

We have played an active role in Eskom’s Road-to-Rail Migration Strategy (R2RMS)

The successful application of this Road-to-Rail Migration Strategy has made Blinkpan Siding near Emalahleni the coal sector’s first multi-user terminal

Makoya also integrated the Camden Coal Terminal and Camden Power Station, so that coal from Blinkpan forms part of a throughput delivering mains electricity to South African business and domestic consumers

Further to the organisation’s efforts in the establishment of the sector’s first Inland Coal Terminal (ICT), Makoya partnered with Highveld Steel in the conversion of the Witbank rail footprint into a Resource Rail Terminal

We have developed relationships with Eskom, Transnet, Transnet Freight Rail and Transnet’s engineering division. Other customers include commodity producers and traders

Makoya supports new entrant miners. Based on our M-Powered franchise model and ‘plug-and-play’ back office systems, we continue to expand our customer base in various sectors, both domestically and internationally

Our Values

The Makoya business values guide us in everything we do as we strive to invest in our people, the economy and our nation. Our values are an integral part of what we stand for and inform every single aspect of our operations.

Integrity

Makoya is a place where caring, honesty and fairness form the solid base of all decision-making. All stakeholders are considered to be part of the Makoya family.

Excellence

Excellence helps us maintain our competitive edge at Makoya. It means ceaselessly seeking to improve our processes, systems and results. Each lesson learnt is assimilated as knowledge.

Teamwork

We actively foster a collaborative professional environment in which all ideas are given equal consideration. We celebrate our achievements together and learn from any setbacks as a team.

Stewardship

Stewardship embodies the responsible planning, control and management of assigned tasks and resources as if they were our own. The concept of stewardship within Makoya extends beyond our jobs and into our spirituality, health, safety and the environment.

Economic Responsibility & Opportunity

At Makoya we recognise that our business model must deliver fair and profitable long-term economic returns to all our stakeholders, whether through employment or investment. Makoya actively contributes to the advancement of Historically Disadvantaged South Africans (HDSAs).

What we do

Building on the hard work of those who have gone before us, we are forging new business partnerships and making a positive contribution as a Black Operating Company.

Makoya has grown to become a diversified service provider with the goal of fulfilling our Four Pillars approach to business. This approach is how we support, empower and develop our business, people and clients.

Our Four Pillars are Supply Chain Management , Properties and Equipment , Technology and Technical Services and Advisory, Mergers and Acquisitions.