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The workers demonstrated after the government missed a deadline to provide funds for a restructuring plan.
FILE: Numsa and members of the South African Cabin Crew Association (Sacca) protest at SAA Airways Park in Kempton Park on November 15, 2019. Image: Xanderleigh Dookey / EWN.
JOHANNESBURG – South African Airways (SAA) workers affiliated with the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and the South African Cabin Crew Association (Sacca) protested outside the airline’s Kempton Park office on Friday morning.
The workers demonstrated after the government missed a deadline to make funds available for a restructuring plan.
#numsa #handbag Workers demonstrate outside Airways Park in Kempton Park. KM pic.twitter.com/5w6yYjzPje
– EWN reporter (@ewnreporter) September 18, 2020
The airline’s administrators called the creditors to a meeting on Friday.
The published rescue plan needs at least R10 billion to work and the cash did not materialize despite government guarantees.
The Department of Public Enterprises had repeatedly said it was contacted by unidentified capital donors and private sector investors, insisting the process was underway.
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