Just playing Devils Avocate here.....but go ahead shoot me down.
SAA has been hamstrung (financially) by having to comply with the BEE laws for a while now, and to be honest with you its probably only right, 95% of the pilots in SA are white male, so you can understand the governments concern, the fact that they have done nothing to develop an interest in aviation amongst the PD people or offer a pittiful little Cadet programme that just serves the interests of a few politicians and training captains children, means nothing to the government, they are far happier promoting people who were never disadvantaged in the first place and in Comairs case taking them to court.
I suspected something like this would happen, Comair has been bitching about SAA for so long while having a firm hand in many of the dubious practices that SAA was involved in ie, the demise of Sunair, and the Agents Comission etc.... oh and lets not forget making full use of SAA technical......maybe its payback time.