South Africa: Committee Questions Legality of Gigaba's SAA Bailout

The Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance, Yunus Carrim, wants the Auditor General to decide on the legality of the recent South African Airways (SAA) bailout.

This emerged at a meeting of the Committee in Parliament this week where Minister of Finance Malusi Gigaba's R3bn bailout of SAA was discussed. The Committee received an opinion from Parliament's Legal Services Unit on the use by the Finance Minister of Section 16 of the Public Finance Management Act.

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