Satellites set to catch border jumpers

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Satellites set to catch border jumpers

A new satellite system working in conjunction with helicopters and aircraft is to be used to beef up security on SA’s notoriously porous borders

 

[ToxicBunny]

Wahahaha... that made my day...

I give it 6 months before the helicopters and aircraft don't work and the ppl "patrolling" the borders are just being lazy.

Plus is this a new satellite that they're going to be using? cos our esteemed Minister Nqakula seems to think its easy and quick to just put up a satellite.

 

[stoke]

I wonder how many automated machine gun sentries can be installed with that money instead ...

 

[Generator Man]

Immigration officers at beit bridge are taking bribes of between R20 and R100 to let people through, how they gonna stop that?

 

[Turiko]

This has to be the biggest joke of the year. I thought they wanted to open up the borders to all and sundry from up north?

cos our esteemed Minister Nqakula seems to think its easy and quick to just put up a satellite

Be careful LOL he reads these forums

 

[ToxicBunny]

Does he? sweet...

He's a moron, and I base that on his lil statement about satellites and stuff...

I wonder if he knows what kind of resolution would be needed to see people, as well as the geosync orbit and data links required for the realtime transmission of data.. Telscum are going to LOVE that contract.

 

[Turiko]

Well the thing is, his favourite movie is Under Siege II. He just loves GRAZER ONE ;p

 

[lilGr]

Lol thought this gonna be somewhere overseas not expecting SA to really do anything hardcore about crime

 

[Turiko]

Yip especially since SA guavamint likes to copy whatever the USA does, a-la-FICA

 

[Pitbull]

Bring back the mandatory 2 year service in the army & make them do Border patrol... problem solved. This will also bring an end to the unemployment rate or decrease it massively atleast

 

[sabagamma]

Just go to Israel, ask them how they built theirs and make a copy. Problem solved.

FFS the Chinese got this right 5000 years ago...

 

[Rozier]

Just go to Israel, ask them how they built theirs and make a copy. Problem solved.

FFS the Chinese got this right 5000 years ago...

Holy Cow! I didn't even know we still had borders. I thought SA was just a general throughfare for the rest of africa.

 

[Fudzy]

Did any of you read that story about the Russian cosmonauts spying on the invasion of Georgia from the ISS?

 

[lordrage]

This has to be the biggest joke of the year. I thought they wanted to open up the borders to all and sundry from up north?

Ya thats what I thought. No visa requirements to get in. So this is then just a complete waste of taxpayers money. again.

 

[Turiko]

Ya thats what I thought. No visa requirements to get in. So this is then just a complete waste of taxpayers money. again.

Ja well, wasting taxpayers money in the extreme is the african way

 

[bwana]

Google Earth ≠ realtime border surveillance.

 

[lordrage]

Ja well, wasting taxpayers money in the extreme is the african way

Google Earth ≠ realtime border surveillance.

LOL @ both quotes... so true!!