EWN reports that employees of South African Airways (SAA) staged a picket at Airways Park in Kempton Park on Thursday.  

They were demanding outstanding salary payments, with Numsa and the South African Cabin Crew Association claiming that their members had not been paid any salaries for the past eight months.  The unions also claimed that workers were being threatened with dismissal if they did not sign and accept changes of employment documents drafted by the business rescue practitioners.  Last month, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni allocated R10.5 billion to help SAA implement its controversial business rescue plan.  Numsa's Phakamile Hlubi Majola indicated:  “It has been eight months since workers at SAA earned an income. Money was allocated to the airline last month to fund the business rescue plan and the restricting of the airline by Treasury, but workers have still not been paid. Yet the business rescue practitioners earn millions in fees and they continue to be paid. It is December and our members have no idea where their next meal will come from.”

• Read the original of the short report in the above regard by Mia Lindeque at EWN

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