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Portia Joy Derby, chief executive officer of Transnet SOC Ltd., at the Africa CEO Forum in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images
COSATU

‘Significant progress’ during my Transnet tenure, says Portia Derby

Derby exits amid scathing reviews from organised business and, more recently, labour

  • Lesego Chepape
5 min read
Former South African Airways chief executive Sizakele Mzimela on Tuesday told the Zondo commission it riled her that taxpayers had to foot the bill for former minister Malusi Gigaba’s legal representatives to cross-examine her at the state capture inquiry.
GUPTA BROTHERS

‘I’m not happy that me and other taxpayers have to foot Gigaba’s legal bill’, former SAA boss tells Zondo

Sizakele Mzimela, under cross-examination by the former minister’s lawyers, also tells of ‘ambush’ at a meeting when the Gupta-linked Jet Airways placed undue pressure on the…

  • Emsie Ferreira
3 min read
GUPTA FAMILY

Gigaba denies he allowed Gupta allies to strong-arm SAA into scrapping Mumbai flights

The former minister was confronted with testimony that the airline was bullied, including by his special adviser, on his watch

  • Emsie Ferreira
4 min read
Former SAA board chairperson Cheryl Carolus. (SABC)
BARBARA HOGAN

Gigaba hit the ground running on Mumbai route — Carolus

Former SAA board chair Cheryl Carolus recounted how Gigaba seemingly pushed the airline to drop the critical route between Johannesburg and Mumbai

  • Sarah Smit
4 min read