Recently it was revealed that a plane for our president would cost us about R4 billion - and at least one person responded by asking about George Airport.
Legend has it that George Airport was built primarily because former president PW Botha lived in the area - and so the question arises if this is a matter of double standards.
I figured this might be an excuse to have some fun with numbers.
I couldn't find figures for how much George Airport cost, and quite frankly that number wouldn't be that useful considering inflation.
To build a new airport, according to Australia's ABC, you should be in for about AUS$2.5 billion. That translates into about R25.15 billion.
Zuma's plane is set to cost about R4 billion.
George Airport served about 560,432 passengers in 2013 according to Wikipedia.
In order to achieve an equivalent value in people served, Zuma's new plane would have to carry about 89,134 passengers a year.
Maybe it is unfair to go on raw numbers, maybe we should go on weight, after all, they are called fat-cats for a reason.
The average weight of an African person is 60.7kg. So Zuma's plane has to carry about 5,410,433 kg worth of people a year to match the value of George airport.
Now I know Kulubuse isn't a skinny kid, but I don't think he can weigh that much.
Right now there are students marching on Parliament demanding free tertiary education - and we have reports about massive expense for the presidential jet.
You can look to the past and point to guys like PW Botha as examples of historic excess - except we all agree that those guys were pretty much evil.
If your deeds are comparable to those of PW Botha, you should maybe take a moment to consider whether they are deeds worth doing.
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