LETTER: Absurdly high hopes of saving SAA
How can the government expect to save an entity it has so thoroughly destroyed?
Truth has to be stranger than fiction if the SAA saga is to be believed. The government seemingly actually believes it can save a bankrupt airline. How, when the government has totally messed up every economic venture into which it has entered? How on earth can it expect to save an entity it has so thoroughly destroyed?
Surely someone within the ANC has come across Albert Einstein’s telling observation: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them.” Or Winston Churchill’s relevant wisdom: “If you destroy a free market you create a black market. If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”..
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