The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) welcomed the announcement of the new South African Airways board‚ but expressed concern about the retention of Dudu Myeni as the board’s chairperson.
“We hope and trust the new board will go a long way in rectifying the extremely poor performance of SAA‚ and turn it around into the profitable organisation it once was‚ but with Ms Myeni as the Chair we expect challenges to abound‚” said OUTA’s chairman Wayne Duvenage.
Duvenage said a number of significant and questionable actions combined with loss making performances had taken place under Myeni’s watch‚ which had cost the taxpayer several billion of rands in bailouts over recent years.
Duvenage said OUTA believed profitability was only possible with the appointment of suitably talented executive directors to achieve the professional and competitive outputs required of SAA.
“Sadly‚ the past board has succeeded in purging the airline of excellent senior managers and the current board will have to work hard to restore the public’s confidence in this brand.”
OUTA also called on the new board to apply their minds to the reappointment of several senior managers such as Thuli Mpshe‚ Cynthia Stimpel and Sylvain Bosc‚ who were suspended for standing their ground against the questionable conduct of the previous board.
Duvenage said OUTA hoped the new board would also dig deep to uncover corruption and maladministration which had troubled the airline over recent years.
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