The EFF on Monday said it had instructed its lawyers to challenge the sale of loss-making SA Airways.
ublic enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan defended the government’s decision to privatise SAA, saying it had become a drain on the fiscus having been continuously bailed out and failed to make a profit since 2011., told the parliamentary standing committee on public accounts the government had spent R49bn on SAA since 2006 in bailouts.
“In the middle of job losses and rising poverty levels, the prices of all necessities are rising and this includes the prices of fuel. Rising fuel and food prices worsen the living conditions of our people and the government has no willingness and capacity to combat rising prices that worsen the living conditions of our people.”
He slammed the government for taking what he called an “unsustainable path of privatisation of state-owned companies”. “The load-shedding and crises in Eskom are purposefully created to justify the subsequent disposal of Eskom to the greedy white capitalist class,” said Malema.
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