Liquidation is not an option for South African Airways and is a matter of "national interest", according to Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan.
"We are not having a garage sale I hope, where things are taken on the cheap so to speak," he said during a briefing of Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) on Friday.
"We don't want people to just pick up assets, but to pay a fair price if or when a particular asset is put on sale."