All of the government’s future attempts at dumping its hot potatoes in private sector laps will rely on the government keeping its word, being able to execute sensibly and quickly, and politicians trusting and understanding what the department is doing and why. Not one of these things happened in this case.
Let’s go through those decisions. Right at the start of the process, the government decided that the political cost of pumping billions into SAA was not sustainable, so the idea was to pass that responsibility on to the private sector. Sorry. I mean, enter into a public-private partnership. The reason we don’t know this is that Gordhan was at this point bending a whole bunch of rules to make the deal happen. The reason he was bending the rules was desperation. The process was taking so long that SAA was nose-diving, helped by the dire situation for airlines around the world caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Much to the credit of SAA’s new management, the airline’s financial position, while precarious, might be sustainable. In December, John Lamola said that SAA was “in a healthier financial position than it has been in several years”.
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