SAA: Finance Committee accedes to DA request to probe national carrier execs
23 August 2016
The DA has finally been able to ensure that SAA brief the Standing Committee on Finance (SCOF) on 20 September 2016.
The DA expects this briefing to include the many issues of reckless trading that we have highlighted time and again. We expect both the Minister of Finance and SAA Board Chairperson, Dudu Myeni, to be present to answer questions put to them by members of the committee. SAA is in a governance and financial crisis and there must be no limitation on the time available to the finance committee to fully interrogate Ms Myeni, National Treasury officials and SAA officials even if this means that the meeting extends into the night.
I will therefore write to the Chairperson of the Finance Committee, Yunus Carrim, to request that arrangements are made with Parliament for committee members to be excused from any sitting of Parliament on that day as well as to write to the Minister of Finance, National Treasury and the SAA delegation to advise them to be available for the entire day on the 20th of September for as long as it takes for the finance committee to do its oversight work.
In addition; the directors, including Ms Myeni, must be held personally liable in terms of section 77(3) of the Companies Act of 2008 for all the losses incurred by SAA.