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The Citizen reports that nearly two weeks after their 25 June payday, staff at budget airline Mango are still in the dark about when they will be paid for the month.
The wait comes after the employees of the SA Airways (SAA) subsidiary received a letter two days prior to payday advising them that there were no funds to pay salaries. This was followed up in turn by a mail from Mango acting chief executive officer (CEO) William Ndlovu explaining the process that the ailing carrier had to follow for funding, and that Mango management had zero control over most of what happened. “When we say things are out of our control we mean it,” Ndlovu wrote to staff, going on to say that “we all need the patience and hope that those who are responsible for approving and moving our application [for funds] along the process do so as quickly as possible”. The letter states elsewhere: “All we can do is call the SAA company secretary”. Mango’s Benediction Zubane explained that the failure to pay June salaries was “due to the much-anticipated, pending shareholder funding and insufficient income generating opportunities thus far.” Despite several messages, the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) did not respond to any questions about provision of funding and neither did SAA.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Hein Kaiser at The Citizen
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