EXCLUSIVE: Axings at Acsa put on ice
Some Airports Company SA board members have threatened to sue Transport Minister Dipuo Peters over proposed job losses
Transport Minister Dipuo Peters has made an about-turn after buckling to Airports Company SA (Acsa) minority shareholder demands, postponing a meeting at which four board members would have been fired. The 11th-hour reprieve raises the spectre of a revival of a board resolution to suspend and discipline Acsa CEO Bongani Maseko for contravening the parastatal’s supply chain rules. Peters, through her spokesman Ishmael Mnisi, confirmed late on Wednesday sending out the postponement note. It has emerged that some of the board members whose removal had been mooted in two previous notices, have written to the minister, asking for reasons to be given for placing them on the chopping block, failing which they would take legal action against her.Business Day has also learnt that the notice postponing next Monday’s shareholder meeting, which was issued on Wednesday afternoon, came just before the affected board members were planning to petition the high court on an urgent basis in a bid to i...
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