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Old 21st Nov 2007, 23:32
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Sir Osis of the river
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RSA....

Rumline, have to agree with you, RSA would have been no better than... But you left out Nigeria!

Chile 777,

There were a few black pilots in RSA pre 1994. They mainly flew for the "homeland" airlines. Transkei etc. ( Of course, even then, as In George Orwell's Animal Farm, some were more equal than others, and were a protected species. Try rostering a whole airline around one pilot who wont fly on Saturday because he is Seventh Day Adventist. Could not fire him because he was..... You guesssed it, a black man. True story, that is the way it was. even then! )

What happened to these guys, I have no idea. They were good guys to work with anyway. Maybe they will pop up here and let us know what they are up to?

Hope that helps answer the question anyway.