Oh no - not bitter at all. Just a little joke, Next year Zuma is president, Zuma is a Zulu, the Zulus have ben a little put down by the ANC - which is not a Zulu party really. You do the recruitment maths as they say?
The real scene with SAA may be said as follows...
SAA has always been a puzzle on recruitment wishes but they always do seem to recruit, Only way to get on the gravy train is to send them a cv and to keep updating it even if nothing much has happened. But, for instance, perhaps you get permanent residence, buy a house? Something that locks you in to SA.
There are older pilots leaving but there are still plenty of young (44-55) guys left and training standards are excellent. The company is still first class to work for. The only big problem that seems to be there in the work place hands on environment is that between flight crew and cabin crew, especially on long haul night stops. You can do the math or Rorschach blot on that one also.Go for it. You cannot loose but if you can't find out the address of the chief pilots office yourself, you might have a problem. Use Postnet for posting, not the post office perhaps?
Good luck.