As pressure mounts on South African Airways (SAA) chairwoman Dudu Myeni, on Monday, her lawyers will try to persuade the Companies Tribunal to block the public from attending a hearing into some of the circumstances around the controversial 2013 plan to purchase planes from Airbus. The hearing is scheduled for 10am on Monday. Myeni’s lawyers argue the compliance notice issued to her by the Companies and Intellectual Properties Commission (CIPC) in November 2016 should be declared invalid because the proper process was not followed. Media organisations, the DA and the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) are intent on getting access to a hearing deemed to be of significant public interest. The DA’s Alf Lees said it was unclear whether he would be allowed to attend the hearing because lawyers for SAA and the CIPC were only due to argue the issue of confidentiality ahead of the hearing. Lees said he would travel to Pretoria on Monday in the hope of being allowed in. He has been battli...
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