The "Eye in the Sky” aerial surveillance project has been cancelled after its R100m contract was terminated over non-compliance.
The City's “Eye in the Sky” technology that was grounded due to non-compliance cost the taxpayer R16.3 million in a single year.
The City further revealed the ShotSpotter project - an acoustic gunshot detection technology deployed on the Cape Flats, amounted to nearly R30m between 2022 and 2025.
This, while questions remain over how many guns were recovered, how many arrests were made, and how many prosecutions followed.
The Cape Argus exclusively revealed that the Eye in the Sky project was cancelled in August while the ShotSpotter contract had also ended and was under review.
