{"id":115406,"date":"2016-03-04T09:41:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T07:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=115406"},"modified":"2016-03-04T09:41:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T07:41:24","slug":"anc-always-said-zuma-must-pay-back-portion-of-nkandla-money-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/115406\/anc-always-said-zuma-must-pay-back-portion-of-nkandla-money-report\/","title":{"rendered":"ANC always said Zuma must pay back portion of Nkandla money &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ANC parliamentary caucus always wanted President Jacob Zuma to #paybackthemoney, its outgoing chief whip Stone Sizane told the Mail &amp; Guardian in an interview published on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been consistent on our position that President Zuma needed to pay a portion of the Nkandla money in line with the public protector\u2019s decision,\u201d Sizani said this week.<\/p>\n<p>In a lengthy interview about the parliamentary process of considering Public Protector Thuli Madonsela&#8217;s report on upgrades to Zuma&#8217;s Nkandla home, Sizani added: \u201cThe ad hoc committee report in Parliament also supported the public protector\u2019s recommendation that the president must pay back a reasonable amount.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no two ways about this. If you disagreed with the public protector, you needed to take her report for a [judicial] review,\u201d said Sizani.<\/p>\n<p>He dismissed rumours that he was leaving his position because he had been critical of the Nkandla matter had been handled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/anc-always-said-zuma-must-pay-back-portion-of-nkandla-money-report-20160304\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Nkandla<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/112615\/the-list-of-anc-members-who-said-zuma-owes-nothing-for-nkandla\/\">The list of ANC members who said Zuma owes nothing for Nkandla<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/112049\/sa-taxpayers-must-pay-for-nkandla-anc-supporters\/\">SA taxpayers must pay for Nkandla: ANC supporters<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/111315\/how-much-money-will-zuma-pay-back-for-nkandla\/\">How much money will Zuma pay back for Nkandla?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The ANC parliamentary caucus always wanted President Jacob Zuma to #paybackthemoney, its outgoing chief whip Stone Sizane told the Mail &#038; Guardian in an interview published on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":96265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25,1875,5685],"class_list":["post-115406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active","tag-anc","tag-nkandla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115410,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115406\/revisions\/115410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}