South Africa & China to Build Base on the Moon

Submitted by: aka.attrition

Source: IOL

Submitter’s note: They can’t keep the lights on – with 8+ hours a day “load shedding” i.e. rolling blackouts – but they going to build a base on the moon by 2030. That’s 7 years for the maff challenged. Because moon-bases is the priority for a country with 40% unemployment, housing crisis, power crisis, water crisis, infrastructure crisis, political incompetence, collapsing currency, and rampant corruption.

South Africa partners with China to build research base on the moon

Earlier this month, South Africa and China signed a Memorandum of Understanding launching a partnership that will see a research base built on the moon Picture: JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP

South Africa and China have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will see the building of a research base on the moon.

The South African National Space Agency (Sansa) announced that a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Cen Xiaodong on behalf of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), the Ambassador of Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Republic of South Africa, and Humbulani Mudau, the CEO of Sansa, marking SA’s formal entry into China’s International Lunar Research Station program.

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