Nkandla Freeway Corruption Potentially Exposed...

Im absolutely WOW'ed with this bit of sleuthing. Well done DJ! I really hope that the powers that be take notice!!
Really incredible information!
 
JungleBoy said:
Good story except that the road in question does not even go through Nkandla which is about 30 kilometres away.
Is it not then propaganda that this road is referred to as Nkandla Freeway ? For example Midrand is roughly 30 km away from Pretoria CBD. There is a highway from Witbank passing through PTA to Rustenburg (N4). Would it make any sense for anyone to refer to the N4 as the Midrand Highway?
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Hi Jungleboy

Is this then all a crock of sh!3t??
A strangely shaped road is being built in KwaZulu-Natal. It runs from the coal-mining town of Vryheid in the north of the province, dips down into a valley to cross the Tugela river, and winds its way out again, to Kranskop in the south.

It runs a relatively straight path between the two towns, as roads tend to do,encompassing as it goes various villages that happen to be along the way. Nqutu. Silutshana. Qudeni.

But about 140km into its meander, the proposed road behaves rather oddly. Just past Qudeni, instead of completing the final stretch to Kranskop, the road turns suddenly to the left and makes a detour to Nkandla. Then it returns the 20 or so kilometres to carry on its journey as if nothing surprising had happened.

The planned detour sticks out of the road's proposed route like a spare limb; an unexplained anomaly that is a clear drain on resources.

Speaking of unexplained and pricey anomalies, the new road happens to lead to our president's private residence in Nkandla, the upgrade of which is costing the taxpayer more than R200-million. There are also plans to build a R2-billion town close to the village and a R582-million face-lift on roads leading to Nkandla, according to investigative reports.
http://mg.co.za/article/2012-11-12-zumas-tangled-road-to-nkandla
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JungleBoy said:
But the road will connect more than just Nkandla along the way. Along the route there are other towns such as Greytown, Kranskop, Qhudeni, Siluthana, Nquthu, Mondlo that will also have access to a paved road.
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Will they now spend R15 billion on erecting gantries and "adopting the user-pays principle" and tolling these roads then?
 
JungleBoy said:
But the road will connect more than just Nkandla along the way. Along the route there are other towns such as Greytown, Kranskop, Qhudeni, Siluthana, Nquthu, Mondlo that will also have access to a paved road.
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Is the R1.5bn used for this entire road or only the bit from Qudeni to Nkandla ?
 
JungleBoy said:
But the road will connect more than just Nkandla along the way. Along the route there are other towns such as Greytown, Kranskop, Qhudeni, Siluthana, Nquthu, Mondlo that will also have access to a paved road.
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All in a straight line except for where El Presidente's crib is.
 
Let's not discount the fact that infrastructure upgrades are actually a good thing. There's nothing wrong in principle with building a new road to connect new towns. The issue here is that the only reason the road is being built to run through Nkandla is because of the Zuma, and it appears that this deal is corrupt to the core. Let's not start diverting attention away from the issues at hand by turning this into a semantics argument...
 
I just tweeted a link to this thread on my timeline; hope you don't mind DJ. It was the only way to get it to as many people as possible.
 
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DJ, are you going to keep us updated on whether you get any response to the info you have sent out to the media and political parties ?
 
I think everyone who sent this out should keep us up to date if they received feedback. Corruption Watch and the Auditor General should also be informed. Surely the Auditor General would be interested if the government is complicit in money laundering?

This whole deal forms part of Nkandlagate, though, so I hope the DA adds this info to potential court case/investigation.
 
DJ... said:
It's only there because of Nkandla...
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It's not the only gravel route that is being paved in KZN though. The village in the South Coast where I was born has always had a long stretch of gravel road connecting it to the N2. The road used to become unusable during rainy seasons and yet it was the only gateway to places like Hibberdene, Port Shepstone, and Durban. Once we were returning from a school excursion in Port Shepstone and the bus got stuck in the mud after heavy rains. We had to spend the whole night in the bus before we could walk the rest of the distance home in the morning having been away from home the whole day. Mind you we were juinor primary school children :(

Recently that road was paved and no one made a noise about it. In fact the construction had been going on since around 2006-7. Jacob Zuma was in the political wilderness then. Sure there might have been corruption in the tendering processes but the road is tarred now and people who still live there appreciate it very much.
 
Sneeky said:
Hi Jungleboy

Is this then all a crock of sh!3t??
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yeah that is all a crock of shi3te...
Look closely at the map posted in that article. Nkandla is indicated as point E. As you can see the road does not go to Nkandla but there is a road connecting Nkandla to the main route.
Besides there is Qhudeni Forest Reserve in there. So you would rather they cleared the forest for the construction of a straight road?
 
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According to Alex Eliseev, the presidency (probably meaning that tool Maharaj) affirms that Zumatello does have a bond with a national bank.

Well, that's okay then. I mean Maharaj is open and honest.
 
SO just because the people appreciate the end result, corruption should be condoned?

**** that, sorry. If there was no corruption, maybe 3 roads could have been tarred instead of one? Corruption is stealing from the people of SA - END OF STORY.
 
JungleBoy said:
It's not the only gravel route that is being paved in KZN though. The village in the South Coast where I was born has always had a long stretch of gravel road connecting it to the N2. The road used to become unusable during rainy seasons and yet it was the only gateway to places like Hibberdene, Port Shepstone, and Durban. Once we were returning from a school excursion in Port Shepstone and the bus got stuck in the mud after heavy rains. We had to spend the whole night in the bus before we could walk the rest of the distance home in the morning having been away from home the whole day. Mind you we were juinor primary school children :(

Recently that road was paved and no one made a noise about it. In fact the construction had been going on since around 2006-7. Jacob Zuma was in the political wilderness then. Sure there might have been corruption in the tendering processes but the road is tarred now and people who still live there appreciate it very much.
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You seem to be under the impression that the issue is that the road is being upgraded. Did you not read the thread? :wtf:
 
Albereth said:
According to Alex Eliseev, the presidency (probably meaning that tool Maharaj) affirms that Zumatello does have a bond with a national bank.

Well, that's okay then. I mean Maharaj is open and honest.
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Did they happen to mention which property was bonded? Because he clearly stated that Nkandla was bonded, which it is not...
 
DJ... said:
Did they happen to mention which property was bonded? Because he clearly stated that Nkandla was bonded, which it is not...
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No he did not say Nkandla was bonded. He said he is paying back a bond that he took out to upgrade Nkandla. If you own more than one property surely you can take a second bond on one property with capital to upgrade another or to use as you please.
 
Jungleboy, I don't understand what it is you're going on about. Nobody in this thread so far has taken issue with infrastructure upgrades. The issue is what appears to be blatant corruption surrounding the upgrades.

I welcome these sorts of upgrades in poorer areas. I detest corruption though, which is what this thread is about. Clearly Nkandla was given special treatment as there are far more important road infrastructure upgrades in the pipeline that Nkandla. That being said, this has nothing to do with the efficacy of the final product, which is the direction you're trying to take this. This is about the corruption relating to the project. Please stop with the attempts to derail the thread into a discussion about the efficacy of the road itself...
 
JungleBoy said:
No he did not say Nkandla was bonded. He said he is paying back a bond that he took out to upgrade Nkandla. If you own more than one property surely you can take a second bond on one property to upgrade another or to use as you please.
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Perhaps. But then this fscking moron should learn to make himself clear. He intentionally obfuscates issues at every possible junction. If a bond exists in his name, none of the investigative journalists could find it. And why would he be taking out a second mortgage on another home to fund Nkandla upgrades? Just bond the property itself, especially considering the pragmatic upgrade approach he's adopted. Why must simple questions be obfuscated by this prick time and time again?
 
DJ... said:
Jungleboy, I don't understand what it is you're going on about. Nobody in this thread so far has taken issue with infrastructure upgrades. The issue is what appears to be blatant corruption surrounding the upgrades.

I welcome these sorts of upgrades in poorer areas. I detest corruption though, which is what this thread is about. Clearly Nkandla was given special treatment as there are far more important road infrastructure upgrades in the pipeline that Nkandla. That being said, this has nothing to do with the efficacy of the final product, which is the direction you're trying to take this. This is about the corruption relating to the project. Please stop with the attempts to derail the thread into a discussion about the efficacy of the road itself...
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Well unless you can prove the corruption, this thread is kind of pointless then.
 
DJ... said:
Did they happen to mention which property was bonded? Because he clearly stated that Nkandla was bonded, which it is not...
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The quote is:

"We reaffirm President Zuma does have a bond on the residence with one of the national banks."

The whole statement is 3 sentences long - no explanation, no details.
 
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