Beeld reported on Tuesday that 15 Squadron based in Durban received
a small amount of flight hours for training, but 300 flight hours for VIP
flights. This is apparently used to transport President Jacob Zuma to his Nkandla
home over weekends.As a result, there are no funds budgeted for the helicopters
to respond to a disaster along the coast.Zuma uses his presidential jet to fly to King Shaka
International Airport in Durban and then uses two Oryx helicopters to fly 100km
from there to Nkandla
via www.news24.com
Just disgusting. Someone once observed that neither Mandela nor Mbeki were ever ridiculed by cartoonists, bloggers etc (although Mbeki certainly deserved it). They commanded respect. Zuma has never done this and so we who care will not spare him from the abuse that he patently attracts.