President Zuma concedes error on R1.26 billion SANDF deployment in the CAR
The Democratic Alliance (DA) welcomes President Jacob Zuma's clarification on the cost of employing the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in the Central African Republic.
On 07 January 2013 President Jacob Zuma informed Parliament that the estimated cost of the employment of the SANDF to the Central African Republic, between 02 January 2013 and 31 March 2018, was expected to be R65 million.
The DA claimed at the time that this could not possibly be true and suggested that President Zuma may have misled Parliament about the employment of the defence force in the Central African Republic.
The President has now written to Parliament to "clarify" the position on the SANDF deployment in the Central African Republic.
He has effectively conceded that a mistake was made in estimating the cost of the employment.