The crash of SAA was avoidable, even after all the damage done during the wasted decade. But we can survive that and live. The crash of South Africa will be another story altogether, writes Mondli Makhanya
There is a story, told with conviction by those who claim to have first-hand knowledge of it, about how one of the wives of a former president turned up at an airport in a coastal city and demanded to get on a flight, without a ticket.
Once the ticket was issued, she was guided by the helpful people she had been verbally abusing through to her flight from the coastal city to join her husband in the capital. Even the committed work of professional chief executive officers who came with big ambitions and concrete plans to turn the airline around could not overcome the tide.The troubled airline is a mirror of the decline of South Africa during the decade of “everything goes”.
For the foreseeable future, SAA will not be able to take you to Durban, Port Elizabeth and East London.So much for the ANC national executive committee’s decision that “SAA should be retained as a national airline, which will require substantial restructuring. Cabinet should make the operational decisions needed to achieve that aim.”
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