State-owned companies will continue to play a critical role in the functioning of South Africa’s economy. Turnaround strategist Kaizer Nyatsumba argues that there were far more factors which impacted negatively on SAA’s implementation of its Long-Term Turnaround Strategy. These factors were somewhat different when it came to Kenya Airways. Nastassia Arendse spoke to Nyatsumba to gain insight into how SOE’s have worked and how decision making has taken place within and around them.