Dudu Myeni has not gone quietly into the post-SAA night
Dudu Myeni has left the board of South African Airways (SAA) — and she has not gone quietly. In an "exclusive" interview with The New Age, published on Friday, she took shots at Pravin Gordhan, with whom she butted heads when he was finance minister; Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa; ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe; forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan; and Coleman Andrews, the airline’s former CEO who left way back in 2001 with a more than R200m golden handshake that drew an outcry at the time. Emphasising that she was not fired but that her term as chairwoman had simply come to an end, she told the newspaper — owned by former government spin doctor Mzwanele Manyi, who bought it from the Guptas in a vendor-financed deal — that her best efforts to turn the airline around and transform it were stymied. Myeni said Gordhan had gagged her, and that was why she was speaking only now. Gordhan was fired as finance minister seven months ago, however. On transformation, she bemoaned th...
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