SAA board members’ absence was a boycott of Dudu Myeni, say EFF and DA
‘We have it on good authority from board members that they do not want to be associated with Dudu Myeni because she is continuing with the same antics’
None of SAA’s 11 board members was present at Parliament’s finance committee Tuesday because they refused to appear alongside the "disruptive" chairperson Dudu Myeni, who had failed to attend successive board meetings, EFF chief whip Floyd Shivambu claimed in an interview after the meeting. Shivambu said he had it on good authority from more than one board member that board members had decided to boycott the meeting, despite the critical issues facing the airline, because of their unhappiness about Myeni. "We have it on good authority from board members that they do not want to be associated with Dudu Myeni because she is continuing with the same antics she was doing before this new board was appointed," Shivambu said. "I have this information (about the boycott) as absolute fact." DA finance spokesman David Maynier and deputy Alf Lees also believed there was a boycott. If true, this would indicate a serious breakdown in the relationship between the recently appointed board of the a...
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