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Public enterprises boss Kgathatso Tlhakudi has launched a scathing attack on white SAA pilots, accusing them of greed and maintaining a self-enriching apartheid-era labour agreement.
Kgathatso Tlhakudi. "Greed is a strange, strange sin. All you want to do is acquire. Acquire money, acquire material, acquire time, acquire energy, acquire attention. The running mantra is 'I want, I want, I want', but that quickly turns to 'I need, I need, I need'," said Fisher Amelie. This quote by Amelie, the best-selling author of The Seven Deadly Series, could be applied to members of the South African Airways Pilots' Association (Saapa), the beneficiaries of the Regulating Agreement (RA) – an evergreen collective agreement with South African Airways (SAA) signed i...
Labour Court dismisses SAA pilotsâ application for leave to appeal with costs By Siphelele Dludla Share South African Airways (SAA) pilots have been dealt a blow after the Labour Appeals Court dismissed with costs their urgent application for leave to appeal their ongoing lockout. In a judgment penned by Judge Andre van Niekerk yesterday (WED), the Labour Appeals Court dismissed SAA Pilots Associationâs (Saapa) application for leave to appeal the December 2020 judgment. In December, the airlineâs pilots union brought an urgent application in the Labour Court to have a lockout o...
The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) dismissed claims made by a pilots' association that the SAA flight transporting a consignment of Covid-19 vaccines was an unnecessary expensive exercise as untrue...
DPE tear into pilots who tried to ‘sabotage’ SAA vaccine flight The DPE says a minority of SAA pilots tried to protect their own self-interests and pockets by discrediting the vaccine pickup flight. The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has released a scathing statement with regards to the South African Airways (SAA) flight that left for Brussels to collect COVID-19 vaccines. The department said a minority of SAA pilots deliberately sabotaged and discredited the flight to protect their own self-interests. SAAPA SUPPOSEDLY OUT TO ‘SABOTAGE’ ROLE OF SAA CARGO IN TRANSPORTING V...