Poor old Ryanair, as always moderate in its requirements, courteous to its adoring public and considerate of the norms of the society within which it functions. In this latest venture however, it might have met its match for South Africa is no ordinary tin pot dictatorship.
Those who have had dealings with Telkom may be better in a position to relate the tales of harrowingly ghastly service that typify one of the great South African parastatals. Those who have had recent dealings with the legal system in South Africa might prefer not to discuss the pitfalls and forever changing exigencies of what some have called an utterly corrupt judicial system.
One reported example might suffice, a magistrates' court that last week required all documents to be lodged in violet coloured ink in a certain font where the week before black and Arial had succumbed to red and Roman? And all, or so the humorous story goes, because the chief magistrate's wife has dreams?
Ryanair should be pitied in its attempt to go head to head with South Africa and the ANC. All that is required now to utterly discomfit MOL would be a letter or two to The Star newspaper outlining the route Ryanair are taking and purporting to be written on behalf of a member of the previously disadvantaged whose only crime was to compare the ineptitudes of an offshore public transport company with those of PUTCO.