There’s a narrative being put about within the boards of some of SA’s most financially challenged state-owned companies that seeks to divert attention from the more scandalous disclosures of capture and corruption by blaming their woes on the leadership of the distant past. In the case of South African Airways (SAA) chairwoman Dudu Myeni, the past she has tried to blame is very distant indeed. Appearing this week before Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts, Myeni had a go at persuading the committee that the airline’s American CEO of almost two decades ago, Coleman Andrews, was at fault for the billions of rand of fruitless and wasteful expenditure in the most recent financial year. It was his 2001 lease-back agreements that did the damage, claimed Myeni, who seems conveniently to have forgotten that she has been on the SAA board for the past eight years, during which time she surely could have repaired any remnants of the damage done 20 years ago.
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