Taxes on domestic tickets over here are (usually?) higher than the prices charged by the airliner – just another industry where prices are kept high (like you mentioned in your Telkom rant) by a government that wants to uplift the country but makes sure they hold a tight grip, ensuring a steady income flow from a small group of citizens, keeping it elitist.

It can all be explained by looking at the backgrounds of the people in control: they were ‘educated’ in the USSR where the KGB controlled the country – no free market, but a closely monitored economic system.

They got their ‘freedom’, only to make sure the market is not liberated – with quasi-competition and ‘transparent’ state-monopolies – that’s how crypto-marxists govern countries, even after the fall of the USSR – some people are just a bit slower in learning from history and adapting to the present situation. And some never learn…