Is it fair that the Botswana government should be giving validations to UK or Irish licensed pilots when there are pilots who are citizens of and licensed in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and all other twelve members of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) looking for jobs flying as pilots within the community?
Though I hope someone from the relevant government agency will read this post, I doubt if it'll lead to any initiative. There's need for some prodding in the right direction before some of the African technocrats even react to the obvious.
Thus, I think the professional aviation communities in the AFI region as awhole should make appropriate representation to their governments with a view safeguard and ensure sustainability local skilled manpower.
Never mind the pompous, arrogant and ignorant comments of drunken morons, we all know what will happen if the tables were turned.
