SAA's business rescue practitioners are under pressure to raise enough money to pay severance packages to the national carrier’s 4,708 employees.
Myeni was testifying in her delinquency case on Thursday brought against her by the Outa and SAAPA.
Former South African Airways board chair Dudu Myeni on Thursday denied that during her tenure at the airline, she would frequently give instructions to the entity's executives and the board.
Former SAA board chairperson Dudu Myeni testified in her delinquency case brought by the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) and the South African Airways Pilots' Association.
Former South African Airways (SAA) board chairperson Dudu Meyeni has failed to attend proceedings, saying that she did not have the financial means to do so.
The vetting process came into focus in 2016 when some senior managers complained that the information they had provided was being used against them.
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan told Scopa and the portfolio committee on Public Enterprises that the liquidation of SAA would not have been a viable option as this would have led to job losses.
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan said that the national carrier had the undesirable honour of being the first SOE to be placed into business rescue.
Former SAA board chairperson Dudu Myeni has cited poverty as a reason not to attend proceedings.
Numsa and Sacca, the two key unions at the airline, approached the court to apply for an interdict against retrenchments without sufficient consultation.
Unions Numsa and the South African Cabin Crew Association approached the Labour Court to interdict the airline from cutting jobs.
In his State of the Nation Address, President Cyril Ramaphosa said that years of state capture, corruption and mismanagement had crippled the country's SOEs like South African Airways (SAA) and Eskom.
The union approached the Labour Court on Tuesday seeking to interdict the airline’s business rescue practitioners from implementing job cuts.
The union, together with Sacca, filed papers in the Labour Court seeking to interdict the airline’s business rescue practitioners from retrenching workers.
Numsa's Phakamile Hlubi-Majola said that they were expecting the Labour Court to hear their application on Thursday.
The ANC national chairperson told a party gathering at the weekend that SAA should be sold off if it could not generate money, saying the state-owned airline only serviced the elite. This was contrary to the ANC’s official position which was that the struggling airline should be saved.
SAA entered a form of bankruptcy protection in December and is fighting for its survival.
Numsa and Sacca were insisting there were other ways to save the airline instead of cutting routes and threatening job security.
