Workers must not pay for sins of SAA's management, say opposition parties
5 December 2019
Workers of South African Airways (SAA) must not bear the brunt of management's decisions, opposition parties said in response to SAA being put under business rescue.
Late on Wednesday evening, the news broke that President Cyril Ramaphosa instructed that SAA should be placed under business rescue.
Addressing the media in Parliament on Thursday, DA chief whip Natasha Mazzone, previously the party's spokesperson on state-owned enterprises (SOEs), said the latest "attacks by the unions" hamstrung the airliner.
She said last month SAA "burnt through a staggering R5bn".