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The National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) has criticized Finance Minister Tito Mboweni for his tweets about the future of SAA, calling them “extremely reckless.”
Mboweni asked his followers on Sunday what the government should do with SAA and whether the country needed a national airline.
“Do we need a national airline? Maybe that’s the question? Or is the airline industry market going to solve the question? In economics, they say the ‘market will fix’ the problem! It will?
“Economic agents: investors, companies, consumers, buyers and sellers of goods, farmers, the market, etc., need political certainty. Basically, I invest because I will harvest in X years in the forward market. Trust. In other words, where there is a market gap, a gap in a market, an airline will emerge to fill the gap! It will !? Airlink? Or a restructured SAA? tweeted.
Mboweni’s tweets come just weeks after he allocated R10.5 billion for SAA during his medium-term budget policy statement (MTBPS) in parliament.
Speaking on Jacaranda FM on Monday, Numsa spokesperson Phakamile Hlubi-Majola said Mboweni’s tweets were insensitive, given his responsibility as a minister.
“We are really shocked to see the finance minister tweeting the way he does about SAA. We think it is extremely reckless. We believe that he has the audacity to indulge himself on social media when he knows that he has the responsibility as a minister. “
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