What R1.2 billion SA spy satellite?

[QuintonB]

R1.2-billion SA spy satellite questions dodged: report

The Minister of Defence declined to answer questions on the purported bungling of a R1.2-billion spy satellite project

 

[MickeyD]

Poor Pinocchio ...

 

[Hemi300c]

Pure magic - turning a satellite into gravy.

 

[koeksGHT]

 

[Petec]

ROFLMAO koeksGHT , bloody well played!

And anyway what's the big deal? The money that went missing, only adds up to 2 houses. Zoomerhouses that is.

 

[Creag]

Democratic Alliance MP, David Maynier, labelled the project a secret billion-Rand bungle by SA defence intelligence, saying that it appears SA has spent money financing a Russian company to build a satellite we will have no control over and won’t be able to operate from SA.

If true, what the heck possessed them to undertake this venture and what benefit is there for us if we have no control over it :wtf:

 

[Jola]

If true, what the heck possessed them to undertake this venture and what benefit is there for us if we have no control over it :wtf:

It's the gravy !

 

[bekdik]

If true, what the heck possessed them to undertake this venture and what benefit is there for us if we have no control over it :wtf:

R1.2 billion for them.

What do you mean benefit for us?

 

[dabbler]

Maybe it came down in Russia a few months ago? Google says in northern Kazakhstan?

 

[htpc]

Maybe they use it to search for any intelligence in Africa ....