SB449, it's not quite the same. If SAA wants to hire them based solely on their skin colour, AND when there are a great many qualified South Africans here......well, you can't really compare the two situations can you? Even worse would be making some kind of arrangements for them to get work/residency permits - that would be wildly unfair on the many SA guys knocking on the door of SAA right now. It's not the same as Cathay/Emirates etc, who hire based on an applicants suitability for the job, not his/her skin colour.