What is public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan up to? What kind of rabbit could he possibly pull out of the hat in the next three days? That will be the question from anyone who has been following the conflicting statements about SAA over the past couple of weeks.

After a decade in which the airline — one of the most potent symbols of the mismanagement that characterised former president Jacob Zuma’s rule — posted more than R32bn in losses, its business rescue practitioners seemed to have come to the most logical conclusion. It was not a radical finding as it was long established that SAA was not viable...

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