Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan has told striking unions at the cash-strapped national carrier SAA that there is no money to meet their demand for an 8% across-the-board pay increase.

And even if there were funds available, the minister said there was no legal mechanism to provide funding to SAA in the current year...

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