Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan has warned that, while two unions at SAA are demanding salary increases for members, the airline might not even be able to pay any salaries at the end of the month. The minister was speaking at a Parliamentary briefing on Wednesday. The meeting was called for feedback on power..
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Pravin Gordhan says cash-strapped SAA may have no money for salaries this month
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SAA strike costing R52 million a day and with a bankruptcy record it could mean the end of the entity
More than 3000 workers affiliated with Numsa and Sacca downed tools at SAA on Friday over a wage dispute and plans to cut more than 900 jobs, costing the airline about R52 million a day. The interim chief financial officer of SAA Deon Fredericks, said the strike was pushing the struggling airline to unsustainable levels…
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Warning! SAA Strike will intensify – Talks between National carrier and striking unions collapse
JOHANNESBURG – Talks between South African Airways (SAA) management and striking workers have collapsed. Union leaders briefed the media and workers after the parties met on Saturday in an attempt to resolve the strike which began on Friday. Workers are demanding an 8%wage increase while SAA is offering 5.9%. According to the National Union for..
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Death bells are ringing for SAA due to impending strike
The impending strike at SAA by the SA Cabin Staff Association and Numsa could mean the end of the airline. In the meantime, the Pilot Association announced that they supported the idea and that the state entity’s overall top management should be replaced. Furthermore, they threatened to act if a Chief Executive with no experience..
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‘Mother of all strikes’ ready to paralyze SAA as union hints at ‘total shutdown’ if national carrier cuts a fifth of staff
Numsa and Sacca already have a strike certificate as they accuse management of threatening them with retrenchments and call for the SAA board to be scrapped. As if their financial dire straits and the plan that they would have to retrench about 900 people were not enough, the national carrier South African Airways (SAA) is..
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Passengers stranded after numerous SA Airlines flights canceled due to irregularities with recent audit report
Many flights from the SA Airways and its subsidiaries such as Comair have canceled flights because an audit report showed that aircraft were forbidden to take off. The SA Aerospace Technical Division released the audit, which shows that there are “irregularities” that emerged with the audit. Exactly what irregularities at SAL Technically led to the..
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SA Airline shocks the country after flight incident – faulty, secondhand component of Mango Boeing turns passengers’ flight into nightmare
An investigation into a flight incident which occurred on a Mango Boeing 737 aircraft has unearthed the extent of South African Airways’ problems, according to a report in the Sunday Times. Passengers on a recent Mango flight from Johannesburg to Cape Town were terrified when the aircraft suddenly nosedived, forcing the pilot to make an..
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Air travellers in SA – Bring your own food, union says, as strike threatens airport catering services
Air travellers in South Africa have been warned to pack lunch boxes as there will be no food or catering services on several airlines as workers are expected to embark on a strike on Monday. This as the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) warned on Sunday that there would be no food..
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SAA pilots willing to strike to ‘save’ national airline – will be a first in its 80-year existence
SAA pilots said on Thursday they were willing to go on strike, if necessary, unless “critical operational and technical deficiencies” were addressed. The Pilots Association has begun the process of recruiting among its members to determine how they think about the possibility of strikes. SAA has a history that its pilots will not go on..
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Bankrupt SAA’s new problem – no competent flight inspectors to evaluate aircraft
SAA has a shortage of trained flight inspectors. The task of the inspectors is to examine and evaluate each aircraft in SAA’s fleet. According to informed sources, the current corps of inspectors is “dangerously under-qualified” and there is a lack of the necessary experience for such an important task. Two new Airbus A 350S will..
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SAA flight out of hell! –Flight from OR Thambo International Airport to Washington DC – ‘We saw our lives flash before our eyes’
What was meant to be one of Sharmla Chetty’s regular business trips to the US turned into a hair-raising experience for her on Sunday night. ‘We saw our lives flash before our eyes’- passenger on SAA flight forced to make an emergency landing in Accra. Chetty, who is from Johannesburg, was on board SAA flight..
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Appointment of white CEO at Mango kicks up a storm – Black management Forum objects since he is white and because of skin colour not qualified for the position
The appointment of Nico Bezuidenhout as Chief Executive Officer of Mango triggered hysteria at the Black Management Forum (BMF). The BMF will do everything in its power to fight the appointment. Their objection is that he is a white man and apparently is not qualified for the position. Bezuidenhout stated that his previous experience at..
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State capture, another horrific finding!: SAA loses out on 2-million litres of fuel a month as BEE music promoter fails to deliver
A little-known company that was awarded a multimillion-rand contract to supply fuel to SAA hasn’t delivered since October last year. This means that the airline has been short of 2-million litres of fuel a month – although this amount is small enough to not have caused any major problems. This was testimony at the state..
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Blame Everyone But Themselves: NUMSA Now Blames Rothschild’s, “The New Guptas”, for Problems at Embattled SAA & State Owned Enterprises!
If there is one lesson communism has taught the world, but which the world has refused to learn, it is that when someone else’s money runs out, someone else gets the blame. The Rothschild’s, who are conveniently white, as all evil perpetrators should be in South Africa, are now accused of preying on South Africa’s state-owned enterprises. South African unions have joined forces to take on the Rothschild family, which they have accused of being involved in attempts to ‘capture’ the country’s State Owned Enterprises (SOEs).
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How much taxpayers money has been thrown into SAA’s black hole to stay afloat?
Billions and billions have been thrown at The South African Airways (SAA), but the airline don’t have much to show for it. It’s hard to recall a time when the limpest of all our state-owned entities was successful on its own two feet. It has a history of relying on fiscal interventions, needing contributions from..
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