SAA lifts embargo on hunting trophies

SAA Cargo has been engaging with the Department of Environmental Affairs on the issue. PICTURE: Leon Nicholas

SAA Cargo has been engaging with the Department of Environmental Affairs on the issue. PICTURE: Leon Nicholas

Published Jul 24, 2015

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Cape Town – Anything seems to go in business these days. I received a notification this week from Uber detailing a special offer on homemade ice cream. I scratched my head and read it a few times. I struggled to find the connection. But then we expect the unexpected these days, especially from the taxi company that has disrupted and revolutionised one market already. Besides these could be described as quite desperate times.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Those very words came to mind again when I saw a mail from South Africa’s national airline in my inbox on Friday: South African Airways Cargo lifts the embargo placed on the hunting trophies of four selected species (rhino, elephant, tiger and lion!)

The statement said the embargo had been put in place in “an effort to ensure that our business is in harmony with government policy [and] compliant with international protocols” after falsified documentation had been submitted for the shipment of some hunting trophies”.

Well, apparently, SAA Cargo has been engaging with the Department of Environmental Affairs on the issue and all is well and good … and the trophies are ‘fair game’.

It does make you wonder: Wouldn’t it be better to deliver ice cream?

ANA

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