Way back in February this year it was reported that PresThabo Mbeki was going to get a new security wall around his official residence in Pretoria.
It was going to cost R90 million and would, of course, be imported. Presumably he wanted none of the local riff raff hanging about his place during construction.
So where is the wall?
When questioned the government quoted an ancient law to restrict information about the wall. They said the 100-year-old Bryntirion government estate in Pretoria was a national key point and therefore could not be photographed.
That dubious body of incompetents, the SA National Editors Forum (SANEF), huffed and puffed a bit about the law, saying the National Key Points Act had no place in what they naively described as "a democratic South Africa" and asked government for its removal from the statute book.
And then - guess what - nothing more was written about the wall and no picture has been forthcoming. Neither has the statute been removed.
Would someone please photograph Thabo's wall and post it here? From outer space even? We need to see.
The act stipulates that no information or photograph of a National Key Point may be published without official permission. We are not asking permission as it is our money (South African taxpayers) whose money has been spent on the wall.
Now we would like to see it.
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If someone can post the co ordinates of this edifice it should be possible to see it on Flash Earth.
Maybe if you go into Pretoria on Google Earth or such and key in Bryntirion estate, on which the presidential estate stands? The house used to be called Libertas but is now called Mahlamba Ndlopfu. They fuck everything up...
Apparently Bryntirion estate is in Church Street, Pretoria
13th September. Just looked on the satellite map services. No sign of the wall. No sign of the R90 million either.
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