SAA gags media
Cape Town - South African Airways (SAA) brought an urgent interdict in the early hours of Tuesday morning to curb several media outlets, including Media24 of which Fin24 is a part, from publishing the contents of a leaked memo dated 6 November 2015 to the SAA board from former acting CEO Thuli Mpshe.
The memo was an internal memo prepared by the head of legal, risk and compliance at SAA, Ursula Fikelepi, to the board of the airline.
The interdict was too late to stop Business Day newspaper from publishing the article in its print edition on Tuesday morning, but the respondents - BDFM Publishers, Moneyweb Holdings and Media24 Holding - were ordered to "remove all references to the opinion including all or any of the contents of the opinion that has already been published on the internet and social media".
Fin24's sister publication City Press published an article referring to the contents of the memo on Sunday already, but it has since been edited to comply with the court order.
In SAA’s court papers, the airline argues that the memo in question is "legal advice that is privileged from disclosure" and should therefore not be published.