Wenela Air Services

Wenela Air Services were formed in 1952 with Africair as the operating company using Dakota Aircraft with Francistown as their base. It operated cargo and passenger services for Witwatersrand Native Labour Association (WNLA), also known as Wenela, starts way back around 1905. This was a mining company..The idea was born in 1944 when William Gemmill, a man of vision, dreamed of flying mining recruits from airfields in Central Africa to the Mines in South Africa. They thought William Gemmill had taken leave of his senses but they were to be proved wrong.Eventually Wenela (Witwatersrand Native Labour Association) would be running the busiest Airline in Africa, but that was not to come about till eight years later after many setbacks