{"id":103379,"date":"2015-11-08T09:20:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T07:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=103379"},"modified":"2015-11-08T09:20:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T07:20:27","slug":"new-r4-billion-jet-for-zuma-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/103379\/new-r4-billion-jet-for-zuma-report\/","title":{"rendered":"New R4-billion jet for Zuma: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City Press has reported that an acquisition process by\u00a0Armscor is aimed at providing president Jacob Zuma with a new VIP jet which could cost up to R4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the specifications for the jet include a \u201cprivate bedroom suite, a bathroom, and a conference room for eight people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe aircraft must be able to carry at least 30 passengers and have a range of 13,800km,\u201d stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>The City Press said the Secretary of Defence Sam Gulube confirmed that his department asked Armscor to \u201cprocure a VIP yet for Zuma\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The first step in the acquisition process is a Request for Information, which was published on the Armscor website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInformation is required for: Inter-Continental VIP Aircraft,\u201d was its title, with a deadline of 20 November 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armscor.co.za\/tenders\/TenderAnnouncement.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Armscor website<\/a><\/strong> was down on Sunday morning following\u00a0the report, but the details of the tender could still be accessed via Google cache.<\/p>\n<p><em>More details about Zuma\u2019s new jet are available in the City Press of\u00a08 November 2015.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on South Africa<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/100876\/saa-spends-r9-4-million-on-copies-of-new-age-da\/\">SAA spends R9.4 million on copies of New Age: DA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/100944\/why-saa-spent-r9-4-million-on-the-new-age\/\">Why SAA spent R9.4 million on the New Age<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City Press has reported that an acquisition process by Armscor is aimed at providing president Jacob Zuma with a new VIP jet which could cost up to R4 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":36863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,1675],"class_list":["post-103379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-saa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103383,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103379\/revisions\/103383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}