Originally Posted by
MrBernoulli
...in the case of SAA, the home-grown corruption and nepotism is entirely to blame. The priority of those who have been undeservingly ported into positions of influence and power is to get their snouts well in to the trough and go at it like there is no tomorrow.
When I was learning to fly in SA in the 1990s, almost all of the home-grown commercial pilot students were sons or nephews or friends of friends of current SAA pilots. And of course they were all male and white. Nepotism was absolutely rife under apartheid.