Safair's foreign ties under fire; but SA’s airline licensing too restrictive. South Africa is in a per capita recession.

Safair, commanding 60% of South Africa's domestic air travel and expanding regionally, faces a critical investigation over allegations of breaching local shareholding laws. Guy Leitch, Editor at SA flyer Magazine says although competitors have a basis for their complaint, the licensing conditions in SA are too restrictive.

After the SA economy slightly grew by 0.1% in Q4 of 2023, narrowly escaping a technical recession in Q4 of 2023, after it contracted by 0.2% in Q3 of the same year. Maarten Ackerman, chief economist at Citadel says there is nothing to be happy about as the figures point us to a South Africa that is in a “per capita recession”. This is because the population is growing faster than the struggling economy. 

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