However, the DA said it believed public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan and the business rescue practitioners were misleading South Africans that government had agreed to a R10.5bn state-funded bailout for SAA."Our information is that finance minister Tito Mboweni, and the National Treasury have not agreed to provide a state-funded bailout for SAA, and that there will be no funding provided to SAA in the near future, and seemingly certainly not by next week," DA MP Alf Lees said.
Lees claimed Gordhan was allegedly putting pressure on President Cyril Ramaphosa and the cabinet to instruct Mboweni to make a taxpayer bailout to SAA, if not immediately then in the medium-term budget policy statement adjustments budget in October 2020. Lees said he understood the Treasury was refusing to budge. He said the practitioners were disingenuous in implying to creditors that the letter from the Treasury had made a “commitment” to provide the funding imminently.
"If the practitioners and Gordhan dispute this view, I dare them to produce the letter sent by National Treasury this morning so that all South Africans, and SAA employees in particular, can assess the real picture of bailout funding for the airline."the DA will oppose any further bailouts for SAA and will remain vigilant in protecting taxpayers' money from being used to fund SAA.
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