They recognize the need to fight corruption in the airline.

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan distances himself from Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s call for South African Airways to be closed down. 

But he’e taken to task SAA staff for not exposing the corruption that has brought the airline to its knees.

Following Gordhan’s briefing to the SAA staff in Kempton Park, SAA Pilots Association head Grant Back welcomed the minister’s energetic and inspirational speech.

Back agrees with Gordhan that corruption has to be tackled.

He says SAA desperately needs dynamic leadership and he calls on the board of the airline to back chief executive Vuyani Jarana’s turnaround strategy.

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