{"id":4357,"date":"2013-04-30T13:04:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T13:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4357"},"modified":"2013-04-30T13:04:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T13:04:57","slug":"why-did-the-gupta-family-use-waterkloof-air-force-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4357","title":{"rendered":"Why did the Gupta family use Waterkloof Air Force Base?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4358\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gupta_family.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4358\" title=\"gupta_family\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gupta_family-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gupta_family-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gupta_family-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gupta_family.jpg 1203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Gupta family<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Minister of Defence, Ms. Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, must provide answers as to why the Waterkloof Air Force Base was made available for the Gupta-family and whether they will be paying for the use of the airport and what costs it amounts to,\u201d Mr. Pieter Groenewald, the Freedom Front Plus\u2019 chief spokesperson on Defence says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Mr. Groenewald, the excuse that the Lanseria airport was not suitable for the Guptas\u2019 aircraft is unacceptable as the Mafikeng airport is closer to Sun City and is definitely suitable for large aircraft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt appears that the air force are bending over backwards to accommodate the Guptas who are well known for their financing of the ANC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhen the air force and the police are abused for personal enrichment, then it promotes corruption and the abuse of tax payer\u2019s money.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe minister of Police, Mr. Nathi Mthethwa, must also explain why the police was used to escort the Guptas\u2019 friends and whether the costs will be paid from the state coffers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is totally unacceptable that the ordinary public is disrupted during peak-hours and that the taxpayers\u2019 money is used to make it as comfortable as possible for the Guptas\u2019 guests to attend a wedding,\u201d Mr. Groenewald said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that the FF Plus will be asking questions in Parliament about this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Defence, Ms. Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, must provide answers as to why the Waterkloof Air Force Base was made available for the Gupta-family and whether they will be paying for the use of the airport and what costs it amounts to,\u201d Mr. Pieter Groenewald, the Freedom Front Plus\u2019 chief spokesperson on Defence says. According &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4357\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why did the Gupta family use Waterkloof Air Force Base?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[132,2724,553,2726,2725],"class_list":["post-4357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-freedom-front","tag-gupta-family","tag-nathi-mthethwa","tag-pieter-groenewald","tag-waterkloof-air-force-base"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gupta_family.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4360,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions\/4360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}