The unions say workers at SAA cannot be blamed for state capture and incompetent and/or criminal management. On the face of it that seems a reasonable statement worthy of sympathy, except on reflection the only response is “join the club”.

That club consists of every taxpayer who pays too much tax, every consumer who pays too much VAT, every investor whose assets have been devalued, every business owner whose income has declined and every retrenched person whose employer could not hold onto them in this moribund economy...

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