Durban – South African Airways (SAA) board chairperson Dudu Myeni on Tuesday said while the public had a right to know about certain things at SAA, the national carrier was not obliged to share everything.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning SAA brought a high court interdict to curb several media outlets, including Media24, which owns Fin24, from publishing the contents of a leaked memo dated 6 November 2015 to the SAA board from the acting CEO Thuli Mpshe.
Fin24 reported earlier that 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.In an exclusive interview at the Hilton Hotel, Myeni said: "SAA is a state owned company and the public has a right to know certain things but we cannot discuss the day to day happenings of what is going on in the boardroom... we can’t do that."
Myeni said the board was concerned about sensitive information that had been leaked into the media in recent months.
"The board is concerned about the leakages but I want to assure South Africans that SAA is not in shambles. There is a handful of people that are leaking documents into the media.
"SAA is in good hands and it belongs to the government, it does not belong to certain individuals and I also know that people think that when they cause a state of anarchy as they are doing, maybe they are influencing a certain elite grouping," she said.