LETTER: No matter the spin, the wheels are coming off SAA
The airline is likely to ask for another cash injection to pursue its equity partnership plan
Despite the spin on the mooted rescue funding, the wheels are coming off SAA, putting the mockers on SA’s fiscal consolidation path. It won’t be long before SAA begs for another cash injection to pursue its grandiose equity partnership plan, risking a further downgrade. That is beside the additional funding draining tax coffers at the expense of marginalised communities — especially those without running water.
Except for skewed priorities and an inept oversight of incumbents who kowtow to the whims of white monopoly capital, the greatest stumbling block to progress is political interference, fraught with a different kind of accountability. The latter prevented former SAA CEO Vuyani Jarana from doing his job despite being lauded by stakeholders for his brand of consultative leadership to feed into the turnaround strategy he was pursuing. Since Jarana’s departure, SAA has faced enormous instability, to the point of bankruptcy attributed to malfeasance. ..
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