bman0429, you ask what the alternatives to AA are, as I said in a earlier post....there are non....AA is neccessary in order to get this country to where it needs to be (yes SAA and the rest of the airlines need AA), lets just hope its done in a well thought out sane manner, unlike the land redistrubution was done in Zimbabwe.
And sorry one more point, you seem to imply that the worlds problems are all due to the white man imposing colonial boundries, yes that has caused problems, but by no stretch of the imagination was the world a nice peaceful place before the white man came along, just ask Chaka Zulu, or Gengis Khan, they murdered hundreds of thousand as did the Spanish Inquisition and the holocaust. We know very little about African history because it was not recorded, but I think we can assume it was as bloody as the rest of the worlds.