Tim Hewitt-Coleman: Technological advances could herald a future without government

I have never yet been a civil servant and I don’t have any immediate plans to become one. In fact, I have my doubts that I am really “employable” in that the sense of the word. But if I was employed by the taxpayers, I suspect I would be a little miffed that Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba thinks it’s not such a bad idea that the PIC (the Public Investment Corporation) bails out ever-ailing South African Airways with the savings of ordinary working people – who have contributed a chunk of thei...