Go bohloko banna.
English:
A few years ago SA Airways retrenched a thousand workers. Today we are talking about almost another 1000. The question is; what will actually happen to the lives of these people? Are they able to get jobs anywhere etc? Unemployment and hunger in that million will grow. That is a very serious problem, which says that South Africa has come to the end of the road. There is no money in the kitty to bailout most of the state-owned enterprises, SOEs, any further of course. This is the end of the road I want to say.
The handing over of control must be the last resort to keep SA Airways in business. It must be the last resort. For the government to get a share of the profit - of all the guarantees given to SA Airways and freed of all obligations to hand out perpetual bailouts - then we need to take that as the only option. Here, I am therefore talking about going to a business and saying that, take 49 and I remain with 51. We then can be able to move
forward and share. At the same time we will save the lives of the people.
The SA Airways will still display national identity. As for jobs, the government must see to what extend attrition can work. Thereafter, a strategy must be in place to preserve as many jobs as possible. Finally, for those who will be retrenched, the government must help with the retraining and reskilling. Australia, the United Kingdom, UK, Germany amongst many others have all put the running of their airlines in the hands of business people and South Africa cannot retain SA Airways as a vanity project, hence I am saying we need to look at a ... say half-half so that we then can be able to survive.
However, the working people there have to be saved. It must be a proper business and run as a business. If not, the government must indicate where the money will come from to bail it out every few months. [Time expired.] From what everyone knows the government hasn't got any money but then you have to supply ...
Sepedi:
MODULASETULO WA NGWAKO (Moh M G Boroto): Re a leboga.
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