Anyone got any idea about exactly how much 6 000 000 000 (billion) is??
Take your school ruler and place it on your car window ledge next to you. Now drive down to Cape Town from Johannesburg, then back up, then down again, then back up again. Now look at the smallest graduations on the ruler, yes, the milimeter marks. Now picture every one of those tiny milimeters being a R1 coin. Now think of the distance you've just covered. All the milimeters in this distance in Rands is what SAA is asking the general public to donate to them, because times are hard......
If the dear politicians would just give 1% of that amount, divided by 3 to the private airlines to split equally between the 3, that alone would be fabulous!!
Oh yes, sorry, I forgot. We NEED to have a "National carrier". Stupid me.