SAA workers union rejects severance packages

They've made presentations to Public Enterprises Minister, Pravin Gordhan, as part of a last-ditch effort to save the crashing airline. 

Business rescue practitioners have given a Friday deadline for employees to accept severance packages or risk the airline being liquidated. 

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But unions say doing so would only mean workers are cheated out of a fair settlement and would leave them destitute in poor market conditions. 

The SA Cabin Crew Association's Zazi Nsibanyoni-Mugambi says one of the proposals they've put forward is for a joint operation between government and the private sector. 

"I won't call them severance packages because these packages are conditional of sale of assets,  post liquidation or whatever the DRPs are doing and that's if there is money left," she said. 

"Also we made it very clear that we are interested in having a strategic equity partner but of course with the government being the major shareholder."