written in stone absolute upper limit was at the time he was talking the project was billed at twenty billion rand in november two thousand five the portfolio committee still led by jeremy cronin held public meetings and subsequently advised cabinet to scrap or postpone the project this is not what i_letter am saying this is what really happened however the national cabinet decided in december of that year to financially support it the lack in transparency and information available not only presents apparent surprises like cable theft but also makes the public the da and myself very suspicious why is it that the budget its costing details and shareholders details for this project have never been made public