Tribunal shuts out Dudu Myeni’s plea
SAA board chairwoman draws blank in effort to have compliance certificate issued against her declared invalid
Controversial South African Airways (SAA) chairwoman Dudu Myeni will have to approach the courts if she wants a compliance certificate issued against her by the Companies and Intellectual Properties Commission to be expunged from her record. Myeni’s application for a review of the compliance certificate was dismissed on Thursday by the Companies Tribunal, which said it no longer had the power to set it aside. This was because she had complied with a compliance notice issued by the commission, even though she may have done so under protest, according to her. Myeni’s bid to have the compliance certificate declared invalid was seen as an attempt to clean up her record ahead of new Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba’s decision on her contract as chairwoman of the national airline’s board. The one-year contract will expire in September 2017. DELINQUENCY Pressure is also mounting on Myeni from a legal effort by the lobby group Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa), to have her declared a deli...
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