National Treasury has agreed to give South African Airways a special appropriation of R10 billion by the end of September, director-general Dondo Mogajane told MPs on Wednesday.
"It will be for R10 billion, we have decided, because that will cover everything," he said during a briefing on the ailing airline's latest quarterly results.
The bill is due to be tabled in a special sitting and Mogajane said he hoped the legislature would agree to the measure, adding that the Treasury would be forced to look at a "plan B" if MPs refused to support it.
Mogajane said nine lenders have agreed to roll over debt that would become due at the end of the month, while Citibank has agreed to roll over a portion of R1.761 billion the loss-making airline is due to repay by the 30th.
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