The CEO of business lobby group Business Leadership SA has called for SAA to be shut down, hours after the cash-strapped airline cancelled several international flights to save money.

"We're sitting with an airline that is cancelling flights," said  Busisiwe Mavuso. "We're probably going to have to do the honourable thing and just close SAA down now instead of trying to kick the can down the road any further."..

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