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SAA is about to be closed, which will pave the way for a new airline. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
APARTHEID

SAA rescue costs us social reforms

As with the ban on SAA flying to the United States in 1986, political pragmatism will eventually be trumped by economic realities

  • Khaya Sithole
7 min read
The report reveals that Ben Ngubane wrote a letter to Lynne Brown titled ‘Suspension of contact in any form whatsoever and/or commercial relationship with the Mail and Guardian, City Press and the Sunday Times’. (Gallo)
DUBAI

For all the billions, SA Airways bailout money not enough to buy Emirates

For frustrated South African taxpayers, the country’s struggling and poorly managed national airline seems a bottomless pit.

  • Markus Korhonen
5 min read
The report reveals that Ben Ngubane wrote a letter to Lynne Brown titled ‘Suspension of contact in any form whatsoever and/or commercial relationship with the Mail and Guardian, City Press and the Sunday Times’. (Gallo)
DUDU MYENI

South Africa must accept reality and unburden itself from owning a national airline

That South Africa’s national airline is in a parlous state is no longer in dispute.

  • Jannie Rossouw
5 min read
Emirates Airline suffered a plane malfunction that warranted an emergency landing on Wednesday
EMIRATES AIRLINES

Emirates Airline plane crash-lands in Dubai after catching fire, passengers safe

An Emirates Airline flight from India caught fire after making an emergency landing at Dubai International Airport on Wednesday

  • Reuters
2 min read