This week’s comment relates to an article on how the Department of Public Enterprises reacted to the business rescue plan for SAA.

Travel Destination Specialist, Alan Roxton Wiggill, said the following:

“Ok, so April Fool’s Day is here (a little early I think). In the real world, SAA would be bought out, refunded and streamlined to fly the most profitable routes possible (if financially viable) without the political dictators and labour ball and chain that have sunk it.

Public taxpayers’ money will not be required once such a deal is done (possibly some guarantees to help the transition from a public business to a private business). In reality SAA would disappear and the post-COVID-19 pandemic flight supply wreckage would be rapidly filled by other well run visionary airline consortiums offering flights that are financially profitable with all the excess planes that are available now and in the coming few years.

A centralised government airline (read: ANC lackey management labour-driven business) will always be riddled with corruption and incompetence. Just the way it is.

Good luck Minister – your head may be in the right place but I wonder about your organisation’s heart.”

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