An application for the business rescue of South African Airways will be brought by Solidarity, as part of a tax protest campaign it is launching.
This protest includes at least six legal actions against state enterprises, the civic group said in a statement on Sunday.
“It is time that taxpayers turn to active and lawful tax protest. South Africa must discover the power of tax activism. We’ve already had a taste of it with the e-toll protest. Tax protest does not have to include the withholding of tax. Taxpayers can unite across traditional barriers, making use of legal instruments to call the state and tax plunderers to account,” said Solidarity chief operating officer Dirk Hermann.
He said the business rescue application would be lodged against SAA and the minister of public enterprises, Pravin Gordhan.
