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EWN reports that the National Union for Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) and the South African Cabin Crew Association (Sacca) have raised suspicion over the sale of aircraft at South African Airways (SAA).
The financially strapped airline put up a tender notice on its website last week about selling nine aircraft and 15 spare engines. SAA said the sale was to accommodate the new airbus planes it recently added to its fleet and had nothing to do with being placed under business rescue. But, the unions claimed that the SAA board and management were selling assets so that nothing was left and the national carrier was a shell by the time that business rescue was implemented. Numsa spokesperson Phakamile Hlubi-Majola said: “The sale of the aircraft is another demonstration of the rampant looting and corruption which has brought SAA to this point of collapse; and it is for this reason that we are also demanding the immediate suspension of the entire SAA senior executive leadership, pending an independent investigation into the sale of the sale aircraft.”
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Sifiso Zulu & Ray White at EWN
- Read too, DA rejects plans by cash-strapped SAA to sell off some aircraft, at EWN
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