Tails… Soon Possibly Between Legs
Not sure how we missed this one given our near borderline obsession with the ticking timebomb that is South Africa. Maybe it’s because there might be some positive consequences this didn’t blip our radar.
But South African anti-trust officials raided the offices of state carrier South African Airways and it’s deliciously named low-cost arm Mango.
Back in January, the country’s Competition Committee said it was investigating Comair, SA Airlink, and SA Express for potentially colluding to fix the price of airfare during the World Cup.
Now officials are saying that SAA and Mango might have withheld information that would have be beneficial to that investigation. SAA is saying it’s giving its “full support” to the investigation and that they fully complied with the committee.
This might be legit or it might be for show. We have no idea. Still, on almost a daily basis, South Africa almost never fails us. Really, if you want to have a small bit of fun, just fire up the Google every morning and type some combination of “World Cup,” “soccer,” and “South Africa.”
Just today you’ll also get stories about dirty power, white power, and Carlos Parreira fretting that Bafana Bafana are screwed because they haven’t played a rigorous enough pre-tournament schedule.
Wait, I thought that the reason they’re screwed is because they aren’t very good?
There was an article in SI about Booooooooooth this week.
Well there’s that, Orr.
Perhaps the tournament will be such a disaster no one will remember the team. I really hope not.
I called it back in January when I saw those absurd flight prices.