By BO Staff Writer A highly placed source within the South African Airways (SAA) airline has revealed that the Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan, will finally fire the Chairperson of the SAA Board, Dudu Myeni, at a board meeting expected to be held today. Gordhan is fed up with Myeni who has been frustrating his plan …
By BO Staff Writer State airline, South African Airways (SAA), should be investigated for corruption and lack of transformation via a Judicial Commission of Inquiry or Parliamentary Inquiry, the African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) said on Thursday. In a statement, the women’s league said it noted reports which show that white businesses and individuals …
By BO Staff Writer The Democratic Alliance (DA) can close the year with a big bash – it has served its constituency very well in 2016. Having laid siege on strategic state owned enterprises (SOEs) to capture them for white capital, it can now claim the scalp of the SABC, having left Eskom, SARS, the NPA, …
By BO Staff Writer The reasons why Finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan, wants the current chairperson of South African Airways (SAA), Dudu Myeni, out of the entity were revealed this week. In a bold decision that left analysts shocked, Gordhan instructed the Board of SAA to allow the controversial American consulting firm, Bain & Company, to …
By BO Staff Writer Do you remember Coleman Andrews? The man who sold South African Airways (SAA) aircrafts then leased them back through foreign companies linked to him? Do you remember how Andrews bankrupted SAA and then gave himself a R200 million “hand shake” for less than two years work? Now, this man has been …
By BO Staff Writer The inaugural BLF Black Business Seminar will take place in Pretoria on 03 December. One of the speakers on the day will be Nigeria born, South Africa based television producer, Wale Akinlabi. He is the president and owner of a production company called Planet Image productions which produces entertainment channel Planet …
By BO Staff Writer On 03 December the Black First Land First (BLF) movement will host its inaugural Black Business Seminar in Pretoria. One of the speakers who will address thr seminar is South African Airways (SAA) chairperson, Dudu Myeni. As part of SAA, Myeni has had to deal with misogynistic and racist criticisms from …
By Andile Mngxitama Today the Chairperson of the Board of the South African Airways (SAA) is expected to be insulted by the DA and EFF coalition partners when she presents the airline’s financial report to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Finance. The SAA is a highly contested lucrative State Owned Entity (SOE) which has been allowed …
By Khaya S Sithole The second week in September reminds us of the death of Stephen Bantubonke Biko and the demise of Black Consciousness. It marked this year the 39th anniversary of the assassination of Biko at the hands of the apartheid government. The most ironic element of this week is that the one individual …
By Yerushka Chetty 2012/2013 – Andile Mngxitama defends Mamphela Ramphele against attacks from Jared Sacks who claimed inter alia that “Biko would not vote for Ramphele”. Politically Mamphele and Mngxitama do not share the same perspective but Mngxitama pointed out that Sacks has “no right to brazenly distort Biko’s ideas to assault Mamphela Ramphele”. Mngxitama …