I have written to the Presidential State-Owned Enterprises Review Committee to request that the viability of SAA be put on the agenda as a matter of urgency. I will use this opportunity to make the case that it is in our national interest to privatise the airline. Simply throwing money at failing state-owned companies would not resolve ingrained structural problems. It is time we learnt this lesson once and for all. Earlier this year the Competition Commission fined SAA R18,8 million for colluding with Singapore Airlines to fix prices between Singapore and South Africa. This means that SAA was found guilty of illegally inflating the price of their tickets to and from Singapore. South African Airways has other outstanding competition issues and could be liable for even further damages if found guilty. Is it not deeply ironic that SAA consistently asks for bailouts from the very people they have ripped off?