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Sell assets or create a new airline? Tussle over SAA future intensifies
The department of public enterprises is concerned that the proposed sale of assets threatens its plans to engineer SAA 2.0
Gordhan steps into SAA crisis, announces a stop to retrenchments
The minister is also expected to announce talks with unions towards a new airline after the shut-down of the cash-strapped national carrier
SAA rescuers give affected parties two options: Wind down or liquidate
As SAA subsidiaries declare hardship to staff, business-rescue practitioners urge them to sign agreements to save severance payouts
SAA business-rescue practitioners offer severance settlement agreement for all staff
Practitioners inform staff that the government’s rejection of R10-billion bailout last week almost guarantees that the prospect of rescue is now impossible
SAA endgame arrives as Covid-19 hits airlines
With the disease hitting the airline industry hard, SAA has told employees it will run out of money by March 31. Workers must either lose their jobs or move to part-time jobs, it says
SAA’s choice: Restructure and cut 2 200 jobs or liquidate and lose 4 700
The business rescue practitioners say 29 of the fleet of 48 planes, various routes and inefficient services also need to go in the state-owned airline is to survive
Unions vow to push ‘battle for survival’ at SAA
The Labour Court dismisses an application by Numsa and Sacca to have planned job cuts at SAA scrapped
SAA cancels flights, moves ahead with restructuring
The struggling national carrier’s business rescue practitioners say the move to restructure the airline is a bid to return to profitability and to attract equity partners
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Gauteng nurses say they did not take an oath to die
With more resources than other provinces, health workers in Gauteng still say they do not have enough protective equipment to ensure safety when working with Covid-19 patients
Covid infections among health workers increasing in Eastern Cape
Health worker infections have risen to 170 at state and private hospitals and two healthcare staff succumb to the disease in a space of seven days
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