DA believes it is imperative that SAA be placed into business rescue
19 July 2016
The DA believes that the Minister of Finance take the next logical step and place SAA into Business rescue pursuant to section 131(1) of the Companies Act of 2008 by applying to a high court for an order to place SAA under supervision and commence Business Rescue proceedings as the shareholder representative, an affected party.
This is to further prevent SAA Board Chairperson, Dudu Myeni, and her dysfunctional board from driving the airline deeper into the ground and threatening our economy.
SAA, at the hands of Ms Myeni, has been plagued with financial problems with assessed losses of R18 billion to date and little sign of a turnaround in sight.
On the 14th of July 2016 National Treasury issued a media statement to the effect that the 2015 annual financial statements of SAA could not be issued on a going concern basis until the guarantee requested by SAA from the National Treasury was put in place. There is no doubt that SAA is not a “going concern” which clearly indicates that, as contained in the 2014 annual report, SAA has continued to trade on an insolvent basis. Furthermore the Financial Statements should be tabled forthwith, irrespective of whether they can be tabled under a going concern or not.