I think that your comment "SA companies don't know how to operate in a naturally competitive environment", is a flippant and dangerous cliche. It is the kind of dangerous and untrue comment which gives the government the ammunition to bail out SAA. When have our companies failed to operate in a naturally competitive environment?  

Do you really think that if water was privatised and we set up a company with the rights to supply Welkom, Paarl or Benoni, that we would let the infrastructure fail and not plan for drought? I have never seen Nandos run out of chicken. 

When last I checked, it was cheaper to fly on Kulula than SAA. It was cheaper to get broadband on Vuma than Telkom and it is cheaper to use trucks than to use Transnet. 

I fail to see your point.