Charles Molele
The EFF has accused the Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan of ‘deliberately’ collapsing the embattled South African Airways.
The party said on Wednesday that Gordhan’s rejection of requests made by business rescue practitioners for the SAA was meant to see the national carrier collapse and subject more than 1 000 workers to poverty.
“The EFF condemns the deliberate collapse of SAA by the Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan. Gordhan has done this by creating an environment of fiscal uncertainty and arrogantly dismissing advisory provided by appointed business rescue practitioners,” the party said in a statement on Wednesday.
The EFF said the cash being requested was not a bailout, but was part of funds promised by government to help fund SAA during the rescue process.
“Although the global Covid-19 pandemic has stretched the finances of the government thin, these are funds that should have long been allocated but
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