News24Wire reports that striking unions at South African Airways (SAA) were meeting with Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan in Pretoria on Tuesday, as a strike by the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) and the South African Cabin Crew Association entered its fifth day.  

Workers are demanding an 8% wage increase, no job cuts and the insourcing of employees.  The cash-strapped airline has offered an increase of 5.9%.  The meeting was ahead of a planned media briefing by SAA leadership on Tuesday afternoon, when acting SAA CEO Zuks Ramasia and its interim CFO Deon Fredericks were scheduled to give an update on the strike and wage negotiations.

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