Twenty months into the new leadership of Cyril Ramaphosa, after he ousted the conquistadors of state capture and an expectant nation sighing a breath of relief, the strike at SAA shows a new side of capture — ransom.

The situation not only at the airline but also at Eskom and other parastatals, has reached a point where the state will have no option but to disband some of them...

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