EDITORIAL: Jarana’s plea shows SA is out of options
We need to recognise that the government cannot run an airline. We must recognise that a far better option is to let the private sector try to do it
06 June 2019 - 05:00
The departure of SAA CEO Vuyani Jarana, so soon after the resignation of his counterpart at Eskom, points to something systemic, and obvious: the current model of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) does not work. It hasn’t been working for a while.
Jarana’s bold resignation letter last week spelt it out. "It is impossible to succeed in the turnaround with the current level of bureaucracy we have to go through," he says. For an entity "in ICU" as Jarana put it, this is critical...
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