[4][5][6] During the Zondo Commission of inquiry into state capture the former chief operating officer of Bosasa Angelo Agrizzi testified that Myeni received monthly illicit payments of R300,000 in cash from them, that was to be given to former president Zuma.
[7][8][9] On 27 May 2020 at the Pretoria High Court, Judge Ronel Tolmay declared Myeni a Delinquent Director, banning her for life from holding any directorship position.
[16] Myeni founded a consulting firm Skills Dynamics in 1999 which has facilitated a number of social development programmes on behalf of various Government Departments and major corporations in and around Richards Bay.
[19] In May 2020 the Pretoria High Court declared Myeni a Delinquent Director and barred her from holding any directorship position at any entity for life after the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) and South African Airways Pilots Association (SAAPA) brought Myeni to court over her conduct and actions during her period as chairman of the South African Airways (SAA) board.
[24] In January 2014 six non-executive directors of the state-owned South African Airways wrote to the then-minister for Public Enterprises, Malusi Gigaba, of their "major dissatisfaction" with Myeni's leadership.
In October 2015, without involving South African Airways executives, Myeni informed Airbus that the airline would be renegotiating the agreement to instead be an outright sale to an unnamed third party that would purchase the planes on SAA's behalf.
[26] In an editorial, Myeni stated that the reason why a third-party rental company was needed was to mitigate the impact of volatile exchange rates on the running costs of the aircraft, thereby reducing the airline's foreign-currency exposure.
[29] This caused a public outcry and a strongly negative reaction by international markets that led to van Rooyen's replacement four days later by the better known former minister of finance Pravin Gordhan (2009–2014).
[32][33] To ensure that the delinquency trial could be completed in the allotted five weeks, a decision was made to lead evidence on only two of the cases of alleged misconduct: the ‘Emirates deal’ and the ‘Airbus swap transaction’.
[34][35] In closing argument, the counsel for the plaintiffs, Advocate Carol Steinberg, said during her time at SAA, Ms Myeni blocked, delayed and obstructed important initiatives to turn the airline around.
[36] The evidence in court showed a pattern of repeated misconduct: dishonesty, obstruction and interference, improperly inserting middlemen and governance failures.
[41][10] Strongly critical of Myeni's actions, Judge Tolmay commented "She was a director gone rogue; she did not have the slightest consideration for her fiduciary duty to SAA".