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The late minister Pravin Gordhan. Photo: Essa Alexander/Sunday Times

Former DG wants ‘liar’ Gordhan held accountable for SAA deal

Kgathatso Tlhakudi said the allegations of an irregular selection process and the undervaluation of SAA assets to unfairly enrich selected ‘oligarchs’ should be spotlighted This…

(Jason Redmond/Reuters)

Ethiopian Airlines boss says Boeing MAX jet ‘reliable’

The aircraft was grounded in 2019 after two fatal crashes, but Ethiopian Airlines reintroduced it to the air in February

A CNN investigation found evidence that Ethiopian Airlines was used last year to transport weapons and supplies to Eritrea. Photo: Hani Al-Ansi/dpa (Photo by Hani Al-Ansi/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Africa updates: What happened on the continent this week

In the round-up: The Catholic Church and abuse, literature, journalists win a Nobel peace prize and South Africa among the world’s worst polluters

It’s a history littered with lessons and crumbs of what was to become the SAA privatised. (Oupa Nkosi)

Africa’s national airlines face troubled skies

The continent’s aviation industry won’t survive unless countries start cooperating with each other

(Jason Redmond/Reuters)

One year after Lion Air crash, Boeing 737 MAX remains grounded

Boeing’s entire global fleet of almost 400 MAX planes has stayed out of service ever since, plunging the company into the biggest crisis it has seen

The Ethiopian Airlines flight was headed to Nairobi on a clear morning on March 10 when it plummeted nose-first into a field outside Addis Ababa just minutes after take-off. (AFP)

Ethiopian crew followed procedure, but unable to control jet — report

There were many similarities between the Ethiopian Airlines crash and that of an Indonesian Lion Air 737 MAX 8 flight which crashed last October

(Jason Redmond/Reuters)

Ethiopian Airlines ‘has flown’ black boxes of crashed Boeing to Paris

Ethiopian Airlines said Thursday that the black box flight recorders from the Boeing 737 MAX 8 that crashed have been flown to Paris for analysis.

(Jason Redmond/Reuters)

Some countries ground Boeings, most keep them flying

Boeing’s 737 MAX 8 medium-haul workhorse jet was grounded in China, Ethiopia and Indonesia on Monday after an Ethiopian Airlines crash

The disaster in Ethiopia left families in 35 nations bereaved. (Reuters/Tiksa Negeri)

Ethiopian Airlines Boeing crashes killing 157

People from 35 countries and one UN passport-holder were on board flight ET 302 when it ploughed into a field southeast of Addis Ababa

Bargains galore: A customer at a jewellery store in Xijiao market

Pearls of wisdom hide ugly truths

A study of pink plastic pearls shows that Africa will have to make big sacrifices if its children are to be employed

The report reveals that Ben Ngubane wrote a letter to Lynne Brown titled ‘Suspension of contact in any form whatsoever and/or commercial relationship with the Mail and Guardian, City Press and the Sunday Times’. (Gallo)

South Africa must accept reality and unburden itself from owning a national airline

That South Africa’s national airline is in a parlous state is no longer in dispute.

Main parts of Ethiopian jet found off Lebanon

Search teams have identified the location of main segments of the Ethiopian Airlines plane that had crashed off the coast of Lebanon last month.

Ethiopian plane crashes off Beirut, 90 feared dead

All 90 people aboard an Ethiopian Airlines plane were feared dead after it plunged into the Mediterranean, minutes after taking off from Beirut.

Ethiopian plane crashes in sea off Beirut, bodies found

An Ethiopian Airlines plane with 90 people on board crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from Beirut in bad weather early on Monday.