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SAA director resigns from his post amid crisis at state entity

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SAA director Martin Kingston resigned from his post, and the move was welcomed by the communist-minded Numsa union as well as the trade union Sacca.

The two unions also said the rest of SAA directors should follow Kingston’s example and submit their resignations.

Kingston’s resignation comes after Bloomberg said in his report there is no reason why the director should be on the board.

Kingston apparently decided to resign when the company was placed under rescue because of the extremely poor results being delivered.

The shipping company is still waiting for Treasury to pay the promised R2bn earmarked to keep SAA afloat and is the second part of the R4bn initially promised to the shipping company by the government.

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BEE has de-industrialised SA, pushed it backwards in time – The oppressed has become the oppressor, and technological advancement is no longer possible as we enter the New Sanitation Dark Age

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Zimbabwe had land expropriation as the spark that caused its economy to implode. South Africa has a slower, but equally insidious, government policy that is pushing it backwards in time: Black Economic Empowerment (BEE).

This warped system has enabled corrupt individuals to benefit personally from contracts as the country’s key services have steadily eroded. While BEE provided the mechanisms for state capture, the SA-specific term for wide-scale graft, it has also facilitated the spread of parasites that have, and continue to, suck the life-blood out of the country. This is the assessment of environmental expert Professor Anthony Turton, who warned some years back that Eskom was in critical condition – but no-one was listening. Now raw sewage flows in many streets and the electricity is turned off for hours on end, in what looks like a return of sorts to the dark ages, he points out. Turton’s article, republished here with kind permission of the Daily Friend,
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A New Year & A New Decade: More Communist Self Enrichment, Globalist Destruction of Identity & The African Way. You AiNtCeen Nothing Yet!

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At the time of year that most people in South Africa break away for a holiday, (the lucky ones that is), or relax at home, it has unfortunately become necessary to burst a few bubbles and challenge the mainstream narrative. South Africa is teetering on the brink and staring into the abyss as it stumbles into oblivion in the new year and a new decade. Just how bad it will be will become clear soon enough. Let those with ears listen…

We are facing a total onslaught of totalitarian and full blown communism enforced on us by a criminal black globalist mafia in the ANC and EFF, whilst at the same time having to face the collapsing economy it created, spiraling national debt which we won’t be able to pay back for generations – meaning we will probably end up as a possession of China – collapse of ALL state owned enterprises, #ParasiticParastatals like Eskom, PRASA, SAA, Post Office, SABC, Denel, SABS, SASSA, etc. whilst continuing to face ever increasing racial discrimi
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SA sport will follow the same path as SAA, Eskom with ANC interference” – Regime is simply unable to manage country, entities or municipalities

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“The Sports and Recreation Amendment Bill published last week is nothing more than an attempt by the ANC government to nationalize sport and thus once again expand and promote the party’s ideology at the expense of the country, “says Heloïse Denner, FF Plus MP and chief spokesperson for sport.

“The ANC has proven many times that it is unable to properly govern and manage the country, its institutions, municipalities and entities.

“Eskom, SAA, SABC and Prasa are just a few examples of this and organized sports will follow the same path if the bill is adopted in its current form.”

“Organized sport once again proved this year that government interference is not necessary. Where the right people are appointed in the right places who are experts in their field, South African sport is doing well. Siya Kolisi speaks for itself.

“Government intervention will inevitably endanger South African athletes and sports teams’ participation in international competitions su
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SAA: More unions want to strike after Gordhan’s attempt at wage and severance dispute fails

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In support of Numsa’s strike, and in opposition to the view of ANC minister Pravin Gordhan, more unions have indicated that they will join the strike.

The circumstances in which SAA currently finds itself have left the state-controlled entity in unsustainable status, and the entry of Pravin Gordhan has increased the bitterness and power building on both sides.

Gordhan’s attempt to settle the dispute over wages and retrenchments failed, thereby extending the strike, which would mean millions of Rand per day to losses for the already bankrupt entity.

There are apparently insufficient funds to pay the staff at the end of November, and the huge debt burden will not come to an end without a radical intervention.

True to their actions, the unions once again help push the entity further into the abyss with their unrealistic wage demands.

Numsa also expects SAA not to apply any retrenchments, which means that the national aircarrier will no longer be able to ope
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Pravin Gordhan says cash-strapped SAA may have no money for salaries this month

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Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan has warned that, while two unions at SAA are demanding salary increases for members, the airline might not even be able to pay any salaries at the end of the month.

The minister was speaking at a Parliamentary briefing on Wednesday. The meeting was called for feedback on power utility Eskom, but Gordhan – who met with unions on Tuesday – also made some remarks about SA’s cash-strapped national airline.

The minister said the strike was worsening the airline’s financial crisis. “SAA doesn’t have enough cash to possibly even pay salaries at the end of the month,” he said. “Not only will people not get increases but they might not even get their salaries,” he added.

Members of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA and the SA Cabin Crew Association have been on strike since Friday over wages, proposed job cuts and the demand that more workers be insourced.

On Wednesday afternoon Numsa and Sacca were at dispute r
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SAA strike costing R52 million a day and with a bankruptcy record it could mean the end of the entity

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More than 3000 workers affiliated with Numsa and Sacca downed tools at SAA on Friday over a wage dispute and plans to cut more than 900 jobs, costing the airline about R52 million a day.

The interim chief financial officer of SAA Deon Fredericks, said the strike was pushing the struggling airline to unsustainable levels. “If this strike continues, we are running the risk of putting SAA out of business,” Fredericks said.

Even though they are working with Mango Airlines to accommodate as many customers travelling on domestic services as possible and refunding passengers their flights or travel with other airlines.

SAA is facing a crippling onslaught by the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) and the South African Cabin Crew Association (Sacca). The national air-carrier is threatening the unions with legal action if they fail to retract comments that the safety of passengers cannot be guaranteed.

Over the weekend, Numsa said anyone flying with SAA
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Passengers stranded after numerous SA Airlines flights canceled due to irregularities with recent audit report

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Many flights from the SA Airways and its subsidiaries such as Comair have canceled flights because an audit report showed that aircraft were forbidden to take off.

The SA Aerospace Technical Division released the audit, which shows that there are “irregularities” that emerged with the audit.

Exactly what irregularities at SAL Technically led to the booths of dozens of aircraft, remains unclear.

Large-scale confusion prevailed at local airports on Tuesday after airlines were forced to cancel or delay domestic flights following a notice issued by the South African Civil Aviation Authority related to the “finding of irregularities” that must be corrected first.

Informed sources say SAA, Kulula, Mango and Comair airlines were affected, passengers had to be shuffled around on Tuesday after some of the aircrafts were not allowed to take off for safety reasons. South African Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has informed shipping companies of “irregularities” detecte
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Trade unions are rejecting ANC’s plans to sell non-performing SOE’s

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All indications are that the ANC is prepared to execute the Tito Mboweni plan and sell the non-performing entities.

For the ANC it is like swallowing a prickly pear with thorns and all, because it is a testament to their inability to run certain entities profitably.

The Ramaphosa government faces an enormous fiscal dilemma, and the sale of various entities will not only be humiliating, but will also leave many ANC senior workers unemployed when private entities take over the entities.

However, the question is whether Cosatu and other unions will agree to such a move, knowing that their own members may lose their jobs because it is known that the state entities are not profitable because too many people are employed was taken.

Institutions such as Denel, SAA, Eskom, Transnet, and various other entities are likely to come under the “selling spotlight” when negotiating with the unions that will oppose the idea.

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#ParasiticParastatal – SA Express is just another bottomless pit swallowing taxpayers’ money

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It is disturbing to realise that recently another enormous lifeline was quietly given to SA Express while all the attention was on Eskom, the SAA and the SABC. According to the Free Market Foundation, SA Express received a lifeline of R1,24 billion from the government in November last year and was now given government guaranteed financing amounting to R300 million.

It seems that the Free Market Foundation forced SA Express by means of the Promotion of Access to Information Act to disclose its financial statements and managerial account data.

SA Express has become a large hole draining tax money from the fiscus dam and if it continues in this way, it will drain everything until there is nothing left. The ANC will have to realise at some point that the country does not have an inexhaustible source of money and that public enterprises cannot be saved from financial ruin indefinitely.

Like with e-toll, taxpayers will get to a point where they will n
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