Is ANC lying about SAA?
22 July 2020
This sounds like a nasty question, but it is a serious one. The SAA goings-on are beyond belief. Surely the government cannot be serious about wasting over R10billion to just get SAA flying again and then launching a "new" airline at enormous cost without any expectation of it being able to run at a profit now or ever?
If the government is not really serious about this endeavour, is it merely lulling part of its constituency into a false sense of security?
SAA is a "nice to have," but it must be counted as a luxury that this country can no longer afford. It is a vanity project that serves no real purpose other than to fly the well-off around at the expense of the poor. If there was no SAA, the private sector would take up the slack within months. There are many other airlines that would step into the breach at no cost to the South African taxpayer.
We cannot afford enough hospital beds for Covid-19 patients, but we can somehow source or borrow over R10bn to satisfy the unions, a faction within the ANC and the SACP.