SAA should not be state owned.
Privatise it - end of problem.
Well yeah but no .....!
Privatise it and let it stand on its own feet. It won't. Its legs have become so atrophied from disuse that they won't support it. It is so full of useless middle-management whose only activity is buck passing and paper shuffling, senior management are increasingly political appointees, and only at the lower levels is there an intake of young enthusiastic hard-working 'previously disadvantaged' people who lack experience.
Without state support (life support!) South African Airways would die.