Dudu Myeni clutching at straws claiming a plot to corner her

JOHANNESBURG – The Organization to Undo Fiscal Abuse (Outa) said former South African Airways (SAA) Dudu Myeni was holding on to the straws by claiming there was some kind of plot to corner her using confidential documents.

Myeni has refused to answer questions at the state capture commission, claiming that Outa and the pilots’ association obtained confidential information about her from the investigation.

She said that if she testified, she would be incriminating herself.

“Can I not answer any questions related to South African Airways, especially those questions about which Outa, as a private organization, had access to commission documents?”

Myeni wants Deputy Judge Raymond Zondo to believe that if she testifies, she would jeopardize her appeal against the Pretoria High Court ruling that declared her a criminal and possibly hand her over to the National Tax Authority (NPA) for prosecution.

She said the commission, Outa and the pilots’ association conspired to have her take the blame for the collective decisions of the SAA board.

But Wayne Duvenage of Outa said that was not true: “The Outa case that we built began long before the Zondo Commission in 2016. We filed our charges in 2017 and compiled our case into many documents, not just whistleblowers … We also got documents from the Zondo Commission website – it’s a public website and we have the right to use all documents that are public, so yes, you have been convicted as a delinquent director and your antics today will not do you any favors. If you do not want to answer that it is your question, the information will continue to go to the NPA. “

Outa said he was ready to take legal action to ensure that the appeals court upheld the High Court’s decision.

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