The Government is planning more bailouts for a number of badly run organisations in South Africa.  South African Airways, in particular, must be the record holder for the entity that has had the most bailouts.  There has to be a limit, one would hope, as to how many times an organisation has to be given money.  I don’t want to fly in aeroplanes that are not properly serviced, but at some point every company needs to be run properly.  

It is one thing to once in 10 years get a bailout and be given tax money that taxpayers essentially ultimate pay, but for it to happen again and again as it always does with SAA is terribly concerning.  SANRAL will have to be given money to pay off its e-toll debt, which apparently will ultimately be recovered from the Gauteng Province.  That again shows that those, who for example, decided not to pay the e-tolls and not register will be paying for it in one way or another, because our tax money will still go to it!  It shows you sometimes the futility of campaigning against something because yes, you avoid paying for it in a certain way, but all that happens in a situation like this is you just end up paying for it in a different way, because any Government bailout of any entity is after all funded by all of us, the taxpayers.  The Post Office is also short of money and needs more money to apparently improve its software systems.  Apart from that, the Trans- Caledon Tunnel Authority also needs money as it has been struggling to pay for its Lesotho Highlands water project debts.