{"id":171571,"date":"2017-04-23T10:21:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T08:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=171571"},"modified":"2017-04-23T10:21:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T08:21:13","slug":"presidency-denies-renovations-to-zumas-nkandla-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/171571\/presidency-denies-renovations-to-zumas-nkandla-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidency denies renovations to Zuma&#8217;s Nkandla residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency has denied reports claiming that the government is set to spend \u201cmillions\u201d in taxpayers\u2019 money on president Jacob Zuma\u2019s Nkandla homestead.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report in the The Sunday Times, the Department of Public Works said that plans were in place to refurbish the property, repair \u201cshoddy workmanship\u201d, and address security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the assessment is not complete, the cost of additional upgrades and repairs could run into millions of rand,\u201d the Sunday paper said.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Sunday, The Presidency dismissed the report.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Presidency wishes to confirm and emphasise that there are no renovations of the private houses at the President&#8217;s residence at Nkandla currently and no government department has indicated any proposal for renovations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We also wish to underscore that no government department, including the Department of Public Works, will be permitted to renovate any of the President&#8217;s private houses in Nkandla.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/171545\/sa-taxpayers-to-fork-out-millions-for-new-nkandla-upgrades\/\" target=\"_blank\">SA taxpayers to fork out millions for new Nkandla upgrades<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency has denied reports claiming that the government is set to spend \u201cmillions\u201d in taxpayers\u2019 money on president Jacob Zuma\u2019s Nkandla homestead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":145531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-171571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171571","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171573,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171571\/revisions\/171573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}