Former SAA board member Yakhe Kwinana testifies before the judicial commission of inquiry into state capture on November 2, 2020 in Johannesburg.JOHANNESBURG – SA’s accountancy regulator is investigating the actions of former SAA board member Yakhe Kwinana after the State Capture Inquiry report found she appeared to have “no clue” about being a chartered accountant.Kwinana, the director of an auditing firm, served as a board member at the national flag carrier between 2009 and 2016, including as head of its audit and risk committee.She was heavily criticised in the first part of the report released on Tuesday evening, which found that she and ex-SAA board chair Dudu Myeni caused “sustained damage” to SAA.The inquiry’s chair and acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo found the pair hounded out subordinates who tried to resist their “unlawful conduct,” creating a climate “so intolerable for many personnel that they left the airline.”Kwinana denied wrongdoing in her testimony before the commission […]
Accounting body probing ‘no clue’ ex-SAA director Yakhe Kwinana
