The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has defended the recent flight by a South African Airways (SAA) aircraft to Brussels, in Belgium, to collect anti-Covid-19 vaccines. State-owned SAA is currently undergoing a controversial business rescue process. The flight was funded by the South African government and reportedly involved one of the airline’s four-engined Airbus A340 aircraft. In responding to criticisms that the flight had been a ‘vanity project’ and that it would have been cheaper to use available commercial flights, the DPE advanced two arguments. First, the vaccines were needed to protect the country’s health workers. Second, the flight was a “test relaunch” of SAA Cargo.
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