{"id":263141,"date":"2018-08-05T07:44:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T05:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=263141"},"modified":"2018-08-05T07:44:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T05:44:32","slug":"new-r100-million-scandal-sees-zuma-gifted-cattle-bought-with-taxpayer-money-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/263141\/new-r100-million-scandal-sees-zuma-gifted-cattle-bought-with-taxpayer-money-report\/","title":{"rendered":"New R100 million scandal sees Zuma gifted cattle bought with taxpayer money: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former president Jacob Zuma, ANC politicians and Eastern Cape royalty were reportedly given prized cows worth millions of rands &#8211; bought with public money meant to benefit poor Eastern Cape farmers.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/sunday-times\/news\/2018-08-04-cattle-diverted-from-the-poor-to-jacob-zuma-for-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Sunday Times<\/a><\/strong>, this was confirmed by former OR Tambo district municipality mayor Zoleka Capa \u2014 who is now chair of parliament\u2019s portfolio committee on social development and a close ally of Zuma,<\/p>\n<p>Capa admitted she had given cows to the former president, and had taken cows for herself to give to community members.<\/p>\n<p>Originally purchased as part of an upliftment plan by the OR Tambo municipality, the cattle were bought in 2008 for R62 million from a cluster of seven farms near Kokstad in KwaZulu-Natal, while a further R30 million was spent buying 1,800 cows and farming equipment.<\/p>\n<p>It was estimated that the herd would increase to 10,000 within 10 years. Instead, the cattle were distributed to councillors and politicians. Now only about 800 remain &#8211; some of which are only calves.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Sunday Times, sources working closely with the project alleged that about 50 head of cattle \u2014 including Brahman and Sussex cows \u2014 were taken to Nkandla.<\/p>\n<p>Others alleged to have scored big are Capa\u2019s husband, Ndumiso Capa; traditional leader and former King, Sabata Dalindyebo; municipality councillor, Solly Nduku; and KwaCele councillor Fikile Magaya.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can read the full story in today&#8217;s Sunday Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/262649\/heres-how-many-train-carriages-cape-town-has-lost-to-arson-and-vandalism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here\u2019s how many train carriages Cape Town has lost to arson and vandalism<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president Jacob Zuma, ANC politicians and Eastern Cape royalty were reportedly given prized cows worth millions of rands &#8211; bought with public money meant to benefit poor Eastern Cape farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":148953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-263141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263141","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=263141"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263161,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263141\/revisions\/263161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}