{"id":18644,"date":"2013-10-17T09:31:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T07:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=18644"},"modified":"2013-10-17T09:31:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T07:31:19","slug":"britse-duikbote-was-geen-opsie-hoor-wapenaankope-kommissie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=18644","title":{"rendered":"Britse duikbote was geen opsie, hoor Wapenaankope-kommissie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.co.za\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/modjadji.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18645\" alt=\"modjadji\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.co.za\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/modjadji-300x226.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/modjadji-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/modjadji.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Die hoof van die vlootstelsel-afdeling by Krygkor, Rob Vermeulen het <span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"STATE arms procurer Armscor's project manager for submarines, Rob Vermeulen, on Monday refuted claims that South Africa had overlooked an opportunity to purchase cheaper, British-manufactured Upholder\/Victoria-class submarines.\">Maandag <\/span><\/span><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"STATE arms procurer Armscor's project manager for submarines, Rob Vermeulen, on Monday refuted claims that South Africa had overlooked an opportunity to purchase cheaper, British-manufactured Upholder\/Victoria-class submarines.\">bewerings <\/span><\/span><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"STATE arms procurer Armscor's project manager for submarines, Rob Vermeulen, on Monday refuted claims that South Africa had overlooked an opportunity to purchase cheaper, British-manufactured Upholder\/Victoria-class submarines.\">weerl\u00ea dat S<\/span><\/span><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"STATE arms procurer Armscor's project manager for submarines, Rob Vermeulen, on Monday refuted claims that South Africa had overlooked an opportunity to purchase cheaper, British-manufactured Upholder\/Victoria-class submarines.\">uid-Afrika &#8216;n geleentheid om goedkoper, Brits-vervaardigde <\/span><\/span><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"STATE arms procurer Armscor's project manager for submarines, Rob Vermeulen, on Monday refuted claims that South Africa had overlooked an opportunity to purchase cheaper, British-manufactured Upholder\/Victoria-class submarines.\">Upholder\/Victoriaklas-duikbote te koop oor die hoof gesien het.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vermeulen het voor die Wapenaankope-kommissie in Pretoria ges\u00ea dat Suid-Afrika voldoende produkte by die Duitse duikbootkonsortium gekry het, ondanks kritiek.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vermeulen het sy getuienis gister voltooi, en sy kruisondervraging sal vandag begin. Die kommissie het bevraagteken waarom die kontrak aan die Duitse maatskappy toegeken is om die duikbote te bou terwyl daar ander bevoegde sakevennote was.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vermeulen het verduidelik dat die duikbote voldoende is vir die werk wat hulle moet doen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hy s\u00ea dis jammer dat die hele projek besmet is deur die bewerings oor die aankope. <span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"STATE arms procurer Armscor's project manager for submarines, Rob Vermeulen, on Monday refuted claims that South Africa had overlooked an opportunity to purchase cheaper, British-manufactured Upholder\/Victoria-class submarines.\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span title=\"He was responding to a question put to him by arms procurement commission evidence leader Sammy Lebala SC, who asked whether there was any truth to critics' claims that Armscor sidelined the cheaper submarines by opting for an expensive German model due to corruption.\">Hy het gereageer op &#8216;n vraag wat aan hom gestel deur Sammy Lebala SC, wat gevra het of daar enige waarheid steek in kritici se aansprake dat Krygkor die goedkoper duikbote vir &#8216;n duur Duitse model verruil het as gevolg van korrupsie .<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span title=\"Mr Vermeulen resumed his testimony after Armscor and the Department of Defence relented to the commission's demand that they declassify all sensitive documents.\">Vermeulen het sy getuienis <\/span><\/span><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"Mr Vermeulen resumed his testimony after Armscor and the Department of Defence relented to the commission's demand that they declassify all sensitive documents.\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"Mr Vermeulen resumed his testimony after Armscor and the Department of Defence relented to the commission's demand that they declassify all sensitive documents.\">hervat <\/span><\/span>na Krygkor en die departement van verdediging toegegee het aan die kommissie se eis dat hulle sensitiewe dokumente vrystel. <\/span><span title=\"Judge Willie Seriti had postponed the hearings to give the government time to declassify the documents, saying he wanted to see all of them.\">Regter Willie Seriti het uitgestel gegee om die regering tyd te gun om al die dokumente te oorhandig.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span title=\"Mr Vermeulen said independent experts helped the South African Navy set up criteria to evaluate prospective submarines.\">Vermeulen het ges\u00ea onafhanklike kundiges het gehelp met die Suid-Afrikaanse vloot se stel kriteria om voornemende duikbote te evalueer. <\/span><span title=\"The top priority was to measure the capabilities of the submarines and the age of the technology aboard the ship.\">Die topprioriteit was om die vermo\u00ebns van die duikbote en die ouderdom van die tegnologie aan boord van die skip te meet. <\/span><span title=\"&quot;It was a blessing in disguise that we did not get to use these submarines,&quot; he said.\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span title=\"He said the disadvantage of the British Upholder submarine \u2014 which ran on a diesel engine instead of a nuclear reactor \u2014 was that it was old technology designed in the UK in the late 1970s to supplement the Royal Navy's nuclear submarine force.\">Hy het ges\u00ea die nadeel van die Britse <\/span><\/span><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"He said the disadvantage of the British Upholder submarine \u2014 which ran on a diesel engine instead of a nuclear reactor \u2014 was that it was old technology designed in the UK in the late 1970s to supplement the Royal Navy's nuclear submarine force.\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"STATE arms procurer Armscor's project manager for submarines, Rob Vermeulen, on Monday refuted claims that South Africa had overlooked an opportunity to purchase cheaper, British-manufactured Upholder\/Victoria-class submarines.\">Upholder<\/span><\/span>duikboot &#8211; wat op &#8216;n dieselenjin in plaas van &#8216;n kernreaktor staatmaak &#8211; is dat dit stokou tegnologie is wat ontwerp is in die Verenigde Koninkryk in die laat 1970&#8217;s. <\/span><span title=\"This would have made it difficult to repair them locally in Simon's Town.\">Dit sou moeilik gewees het om hulle te plaaslik te herstel in Simonstad.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span title=\"The four countries that were short-listed (Germany, France, Italy and Sweden) were, however, offering the latest technology.\">Die vier lande op die kortlys (Duitsland, Frankryk, Itali\u00eb en Swede) het egter die nuutste tegnologie gehad.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span title=\"While the British submarines were seen as cheap, it was already known they had technical problems that eventually escalated their cost.\">Terwyl die Britse duikbote gesien word as goedkoop, is dit reeds bekend dat hulle weens hulle tegniese probleme uiteindelik hul koste laat toeneem.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span title=\"The British had sold the submarines to the Canadian Navy, and political parties in Canada had claimed the submarines deteriorated while in storage.\">Die Britse duikbote wat aan die Kanadese vloot verkoop is en gestoor is, was volgens verskillende politieke partye in Kanada s\u00f3 sleg dat hulle <\/span><span title=\"&quot;Many were never in service in Canada and this resulted in fruitless expenditure,&quot; Mr Vermeulen said.\">nooit in diens was in Kanada nie en uiteindelik onnodige uitgawes was, het mnr Vermeulen ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span title=\"Mr Vermeulen also denied that senior navy staff had interfered with the short-list scores of the procurement division.\">Vermeulen het ook ontken dat senior vlootpersoneel ingemeng het met die kortlys van die verkrygingsafdeling .<br \/>\n<\/span><span title=\"Meanwhile, activist organisation Lawyers for Human Rights on Monday complained on behalf of Paul Holden, Hennie van Vuuren and Andrew Feinstein about the &quot;secrecy regarding Armscor witnesses&quot;, saying they had only been informed by way of the commission's website, on September 27, about\">Intussen het Lawyers for Human Rights gister gekla dat nie genoeg inligting oor die Krygkorgetuies beskikbaar is nie.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die hoof van die vlootstelsel-afdeling by Krygkor, Rob Vermeulen het Maandag bewerings weerl\u00ea dat Suid-Afrika &#8216;n geleentheid om goedkoper, Brits-vervaardigde Upholder\/Victoriaklas-duikbote te koop oor die hoof gesien het. Vermeulen het voor die Wapenaankope-kommissie in Pretoria ges\u00ea dat Suid-Afrika voldoende produkte by die Duitse duikbootkonsortium gekry het, ondanks kritiek. 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