ACSA grounds Mango flights
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The airline’s spokesperson Benediction Zubane says they experienced difficulties accessing the Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) system to check in their customers at counters on Wednesday morning.
Right now, the minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula and Minister of Public Enterprise Pravin Gordhan, are in serious discussion to try and resolve the issue. We should find a solution soon, says Zubane.
Jacaranda FM News has it on good authority that no plane belonging to Mango will take to the skies until the debt to ACSA has been settled.
Zubane says at this point he cannot confirm if the suspension is based on late debt payments.
Numsa, employees say Pravin Gordhan sabotaged SA Express business rescue practitioners
By James Mahlokwane
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Pretoria - Minister of Public Enterprise Pravin Gordhan and his senior officials have been accused of sabotaging the SA Express business rescue practitioners, making it impossible to turn things around and prevent the liquidation that cost scores of employees their jobs.
This is according to the airlineâs employees and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), which came across a 2020 report detailing how business rescue practitioners Phahlani Mkhombo and Daniel Terblanche had no joy trying to work with the department to save the airline.
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NUMSA and SACCA want payment to their SAA members made within seven days, if their application is granted.
The two unions claim, government has continuously expressed a commitment to making such funding available.
The DPE did not anticipate the rescue process would drag on for so long and claim there simply is no extra money to pay more than 3-months of backpay.
An urgent application by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) and the SA Cabin Crew Association (SACCA) to the Labour Court in Johannesburg on Thursday to have a deal regarding backpay of members of South African Airways (SAA) declared unlawful or unfair, had to be postponed due to the court s database server being down.