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The national carrier emerged from business rescue in 2021 and reported its first profit in more than a decade
AUDITOR GENERAL

SAA does not anticipate a clean audit soon

The national carrier told parliament that a final draft external audit report is expected at the end of May this year

  • Anathi Madubela
2 min read
In the most recent twist in the SAA saga, Gidon Novick resigned from Takatso’s board
ANGELO TZAREVSKI

Even with Lift, SAA won’t soar

The national carrier’s ability to monopolise the market has been seriously undermined by more threatening competitors, experts say

  • Sarah Smit
7 min read
The national carrier SAA emerged from three years under business rescue in April last year, thanks to a R10.4 billion bailout. However, it is still grappling with the effects of a turbulent history marked by financial distress, operational problems and allegations of mismanagement. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
COMPETITION COMMISSION

Takatso-SAA deal faces anti-competition fears

It will take lot more that a director’s resignation to clear conflict of interest concerns, a competing airline suggests

  • Sarah Smit
8 min read
Grounded: A British Airways plane at OR Tambo International Airport. Comair could not be rescued and SAA is still building up its number of flights. Photos: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg/Getty Images/ Bloomberg
ACSA

After Comair, how will the South African aviation industry fare?

Local ticket prices have risen by at least 35% to 40% as a result of Comair’s collapse

  • Anathi Madubela
7 min read
It’s a history littered with lessons and crumbs of what was to become the SAA privatised. (Oupa Nkosi)
AVIATION

SAA to revive Durban route

The beleaguered national carrier resumed flights between Johannesburg and Cape Town last September after exiting business rescue

  • Sarah Smit
2 min read
Harith General Partners, one half of the consortium that will take over SAA, has come under scrutiny since the announcement of the national carrier’s new majority shareholder.
ANC

SAA: PIC allegations are Harith’s albatross

Sipho Makhubela assures that the private equity firm has what it takes to raise the capital to get SAA flying again

  • Sarah Smit
7 min read
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)
AIR CHEFS

Gordhan steps into SAA crisis, announces a stop to retrenchments

The minister is also expected to announce talks with unions towards a new airline after the shut-down of the cash-strapped national carrier

  • Sabelo Skiti
3 min read
Harith General Partners, one half of the consortium that will take over SAA, has come under scrutiny since the announcement of the national carrier’s new majority shareholder.
AIRLINE INDUSTRY

SAA business-rescue practitioners offer severance settlement agreement for all staff

Practitioners inform staff that the government’s rejection of R10-billion bailout last week almost guarantees that the prospect of rescue is now impossible

  • Sabelo Skiti
4 min read
The decision by the rescue practitioners to place workers on leave and suspend domestic flights follows heated negotiations between the rescue practitioners and labour unions earlier in the week regarding the airline’s retrenchment process.
AIRCHEFS

SAA staff placed on forced leave as airline cancels flights during lockdown

Employees at the embattled state-owned airline have been forced to take leave as SAA cancels all flights during South Africa’s lockdown

  • Thando Maeko
3 min read
(Reuters)
KULULA COM

Urinals – target the urinals!

A man held captive at the urinal is much more likely to grunt, snort and think to himself ‘Fuck, time to go to Mavericks’

  • Js Smit
3 min read
​SAA has reached the point where some hard decisions have to be made
CARIN SMITH

SAA CEO: All we ask is three years – and money

Jarana said there is now a “date in the future” where SAA will break even

  • Carin Smith
3 min read
COMPETITION COMMISSION

Competition Commission raids airline offices

The Competition Commission has raided the offices SAA, Mango and the Airlines Association of Southern Africa, it said on Tuesday.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
G CONNECT

Mango flies into internet space with G-Connect

Low-cost airline Mango on Tuesday announced the launch of its internet offering, G-Connect.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
AIRPORTS COMPANY SOUTH AFRICA

Travel agent ‘blindsided’ by Nationwide closure

Travel agent Flight Centre said it was ”blindsided” by the sudden closure of Nationwide Airlines and had gone into a crisis meeting to decide how to deal with the matter, with no…

  • Jenni Ogrady
4 min read
MANGO

Passengers enraged by Mango flight cancellation

Passengers at Durban International Airport, some of them heading for the Two Oceans Marathon in Cape Town, were so enraged when a Mango flight was cancelled on Saturday that one…

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
AIR MAURITIUS

Solidarity takes SAA to task over retrenchments

Trade union Solidarity has served court papers on South African Airways Technical (SAAT) division to stop its retrenchment process on the grounds that it is procedurally unfair.…

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
1TIME

Rosy future for SA online retail

South African online retail is turning into a healthy and attractive business as more consumers access broadband and become more comfortable with online shopping, internet…

  • Franklin Paul
3 min read