If the four-year Zondo inquiry into state capture is to be worth a billion rand, the NPA has to bring those who looted the country to book. Yet it has performed inadequately for more than a decade
SAA emerged from a 17-month business rescue this year with hundreds of jobs slashed and a fleet slimmed from 46 to six planes.
South Africans listened to the weird testimony of people who denied they looted the country’s coffers — except Zuma, who refused to respond
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The case Zuma refused to answer before Zondo
UDM leader Bantu Holomisa says the organisation is seeking an urgent application to set aside the sale of SAA to Takatso
The former minister was confronted with testimony that the airline was bullied, including by his special adviser, on his watch
Sipho Makhubela assures that the private equity firm has what it takes to raise the capital to get SAA flying again
Four unhappy high-ranking party members say the SAA sale was never discussed at the NEC
It’s a history littered with lessons and crumbs of what was to become the SAA privatised
While the nation is seized with the 10 babies soapie, the third wave is upon us and the country has moved to level-three lockdown
Interest in the beleaguered national carrier, which has received billions of rands in public funding, means criticism is inevitable
Takatso consortium will now own 51% of the airline and the state 49%
The airline’s outstanding government guaranteed debt is R6.4-million and the treasury says there are no new guarantees to mitigate future risks to the fiscus
The minister addresses the future of the country’s state-owned entities and speculation they may be moved from his portfolio
The former SAA chairperson said her closeness to the former president had caused people to unfairly implicate her in state capture matters
Evidence leaders said the failure of the former SAA chairperson to appear was part of a pattern of avoiding accountability
Malusi Gigaba’s estranged wife Nomachule Mngoma continued her testimony before the Zondo commission after a security threat hampered proceedings on Thursday evening.
The continent’s aviation industry won’t survive unless countries start cooperating with each other
Because President Cyril Ramaphosa won the step-aside order in the ANC’s national executive committee, a cabinet reshuffle looms, with Sisulu and Dlodlo’s names on comrades’ lips
Keeping the airline going is worth it for the jobs and related businesses that will be affected if it goes down
President Cyril Ramaphosa may axe a few of his struggling cabinet ministers and move some of the beleaguered state-owned enterprises to other portfolios
After not flying for a year, SAA nearly botches humanitarian flight to Brussels — among other infringements — and then delays reporting the issue
MPs express frustration at the shoddy work done by the dysfunctional, broke airline and its rescue practitioners, calling their no-show ‘unacceptable’
The deputy chief justice says he has to act because Zuma’s defiance risks inciting lawlessness
The Special Investigating Unit found that companies were awarded tenders despite not qualifying for the contracts.
The department of public enterprises touched on issues related to Covid-19 at its SOEs, as the acting director general briefed parliament
Salary arrears owed to SAA staff will be paid by 19 February, and the public enterprises department commits to reskilling affected employees.
To all intents and purposes, the ANC is the government. It is South Africa. The policies made at Luthuli House decide where we go. The corollary of this is that anything bad in the ANC quickly poisons our state and its institutions.
What if we told foreigners to voetsek? We have fallen victim to the illusion of scarcity. And we are led to wrongly believe immigrants are a threat
Industry experts predict the R10.5-billion from the treasury to rescue the airline may not be enough, but the rescue practitioners say the money is enough to ‘settle the sins of the past’
The SOE has asked the government for R3.5-billion in extra support over the next three years to offset losses incurred because of the pandemic