Now the above list of requirements was drawn up in 2009 by the SAPS, and it was estimated that designing such a haven would cost R457 971 back in 2010. The eventual cost of this project? Just under R20 million.

Let’s for a second imagine your boss tells you to draw up a budget for something in the work place and you go 40 times over the initial estimate. Something has to have gone seriously wrong, but I think we might be able to pinpoint where in this case:

Both the Public Protector and the Special Investigating Unit largely attribute the general increase in the cost of the project to Minenhle Makhanya, Zuma’s architect, who Madonsela found had constantly insisted on “more expensive and luxurious” options.

Well we can’t have our president hiding out in a bunker that isn’t fit for a king now can we? Imagine if he was entertaining guests and they had to go from the luxury of the private cinema to the abject poverty of a survival bunker…

[sources:news24&zapiro]