EXPUNCTION REQUEST
Dudu Myeni ‘innocently made a mistake’, tribunal told
SAA’s Dudu Myeni now wants compliance notice overturned to expunge it from her record as a director
A lawyer for South African Airways (SAA) chairwoman Dudu Myeni, who stood accused of misrepresenting a board decision about the purchase of 10 aircraft from Airbus in 2013, said on Monday she had "innocently made a mistake" in communications with then public enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba. Myeni was asked to explain herself by the Companies and Intellectual Properties Commission (CIPC) in November 2016 and was issued with a compliance notice. The minutes of a May 2013 board meeting and the related board resolution concerning the transaction were requested in the notice. While Myeni complied with the compliance notice, she now wants it overturned to expunge it from her record as a director. Myeni’s lawyer Francois van Zyl appeared before the Companies Tribunal in Pretoria on Monday to argue her case. Van Zyl claimed she had complied with the compliance notice under protest because she feared she would face prosecution if she did not do so. Having the compliance notice declared nu...
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