Past the popcorn, this one is gonna head south. I normally keep WELL away from these political ones, but will make an exception this time.
I am in no way silly enough to think that 'white SA' is gonna get away with an 'ooops, sorry' for the 50 odd yrs of apartheid.
But the one thing I do know for sure, is that if South Africa as a country, and SAA as a company wants to have ANY chance in a globalized economy, it has to look forward NOT backwards. I, or any other white South african, cant change the past. That F
K up has already been made.
A greater man than Thabo Mbeki quite correctly said "...you don't help the poor by destroying the rich...". I am 40 yrs old. I didn't vote for the system, I just grew up in it. When it came to hiring time, there was NO job reservation to help me. But I do know I will be paying for the 'sins of my fathers' for a long time to come. Which is also odd, we only arrived in SA in 1970.
To create a 'newly advantaged' class of people as a reaction to apartheid is nothing short of brain dead.
The solution is to invest the country's resources in education, give people the opportunity to live up to their potential. Keep away from another version of 'ethnic socialism'. That won't wash in the 21st century.
To waste BILLIONS of ZARs on making a few black pilots and a national airline, as window dressing, is to sentence the country to a life of poverty.