SANDF COMMANDER DETAILS INTELLIGENCE SPENDING FROM SPECIAL DEFENCE ACCOUNT.
Parliament, 29th June: The intelligence budget component of the Special Defence Account [SDA] was split between obtaining intelligence on weapons smuggling, counterintelligence and intelligence operations outside South Africa, chief of the South African National Defence Force [SANDF] Gen Georg Meiring said on Wednesday [29th June].
Addressing the joint standing committee on finance, he said 37m rand of the 3.093bn Special Defence Account was earmarked for intelligence projects. The remainder of the SDA was allocated to capital expenditure and non-project-related expenditure such as ammunition, weapons, missiles, vehicles, spares and repairs.
The SDA was subject to more stringent control than the rest of the defence budget. Any expenditure had to be authorized by both the ministers of defence and finance. The ministers also had to individually authorize spending on intelligence projects.
297m rand had been cut from the SDA for reallocation to the Reconstruction and Development Programme in the current financial year. He offered the joint committee a detailed briefing on the manner in which the SANDF determined its strategic threat analysis which forms the basis for its budgeting. Chairperson Jill Marcus accepted the offer on behalf of the committee.
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