THE BIG SAA RESCUE MISSION
YOU cannot be serious! That was the exasperated response of many people when news broke that taxpayers would – yet again – be expected to cough up even more billions to keep the national airline South African Airways alive.
Why doesn’t SAA just cut its losses? Why is the government so hellbent on keeping alive an entity that had all but crashed and burned? How much more money must be poured into something that’s been destroyed by debt, corruption and mismanagement? These are the questions that raged when a new plan to save SAA was recently approved.
We unpack the plan –
