Payback time for Jacob Zuma as court rules on home improvement row



PRETORIA: -- South African President Jacob Zuma has been ordered to pay back some of the milions he spent in state cash upgrading his private home.

In a stinging rebuke, the country’s top court ruled that he had breached the constitution by failing to comply with an earlier judgement calling for repayments.

Money spent on non-security aspects of the upgrade must now be reimbursed.

“The national treasury must determine the reasonable costs of those measures implemented by the department of public works at the president’s Nkandla homestead that do not relate to security, namely the visitors’ centre, the amphitheatre, the cattle kraal, the chicken run and the swimming pool, only,” Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng said as the 11-judge constitutional court announced its unanimous ruling.

It is unclear how much of the $16 million of state money spent on the upgrades will have to be repaid.

The row over improvements to the sprawling, rural residence in KwaZulu-Natal is the latest in a string of scandals.
for President Zuma, 73, whose office says he respects the ruling and will determine the appropriate action in due course.

The opposition knows exactly what it wants – Jacob Zuma to be impeached. That however seems unlikely, given the support he enjoys within the ruling ANC.

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If only the top Thai court had been as professional as the S.African court, ......Thaksin's rising star might have been slowed down in 2000. Think of all the suffering and expense (for Thailand and its people) which might have been avoided.

So Zuma's been rumbled.

Glad the court ordered him to pay it back. But why hasn't he been prosecuted for theft from the tax-payer ?

How can this President now keep his job ?

So Zuma's been rumbled.

Glad the court ordered him to pay it back. But why hasn't he been prosecuted for theft from the tax-payer ?

How can this President now keep his job ?

This court order now opens the door to impeach him and remove him from office...

President Zuma, 73, whose office says he respects the ruling and will determine the appropriate action in due course.

the appropriate action has been determined by the court already: pay the money back

and the due course is: by the time and date set by the court

about respecting the ruling: respect is achieved after compliance

Where on earth does a politician come across/ get that kind of money in South Africa

to repay the state.

Where on earth does a politician come across/ get that kind of money in South Africa

to repay the state.

One word...

GUPTA

Zuma is a disgrace and an embarrassment. Most thinking electorate want him impeached.

There is a saying which is so true - " never trust a woman who cries too much or a man who laughs too much"

It is the blight of independent Africa that many of the new leaders regarded the wealth of the country as their personal money box. A couple of exceptions are Nelson M. and Julius Nyerere. Probably others as well. Western politicians harvest their wealth in a far more subtle manner.

Are there any leaders in Africa who are not brutes or kleptomaniacs?