Thank you for your editorial highlighting the government’s mismanagement of the financial chaos at SAA (“What’s Gordhan up to? (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/editorials/2020-04-28-editorial-whats-gordhan-up-to/)”, April 28). Similarly, it is now more than 18 months since the September 2018 explosion at Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM) in Macassar, Somerset West, that killed eight workers, and inquests have still not been held.
Even Western Cape premier Alan Winde has been blocked from obtaining the labour department report that purportedly recommended that RDM be prosecuted for criminal negligence. Instead, a media statement by a public relations company in October 2019 implied that the workers were responsible for their own deaths...
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