{"id":50284,"date":"2013-12-01T23:11:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T21:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=50284"},"modified":"2013-12-01T23:14:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T21:14:08","slug":"how-to-better-spend-nkandlas-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/50284\/how-to-better-spend-nkandlas-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"How to better spend Nkandla’s millions"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday (29 November), The Mail & Guardian published a damning expos\u00e9 covering the provisional public protector report into the R215 million upgrades to President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead.<\/p>\n

The report revealed that Zuma received substantial personal benefits from the multi-million rand upgrade to his Nkandla homestead in KwaZulu-Natal, with government maintaining the upgrades were essential for Zuma’s security.<\/p>\n

However, according to the report, Madonsela found a swimming pool, visitors’ centre, amphitheatre, cattle kraal, marquee area, extensive paving, and new houses for relatives included in the upgrade at “enormous cost” to the taxpayer.<\/p>\n

Madonsela’s report recommended the president be called to account by Parliament for violating the executive ethics code on two counts.<\/p>\n

These were for failing to protect state resources, and misleading Parliament for suggesting he and his family had paid for all non-security-related features.<\/p>\n

One of the key allegations listed in the report stated that costs escalated from an initial R27 million to R215 million, with a further R31 million in works outstanding – making it the most expensive “security” spend on a president in South African history.<\/p>\n

South Africans – both ANC supporters and otherwise – took to social networking site, Twitter, to express their anger at the report’s findings, calling for Zuma to be impeached for wasting tax-payers’ money.<\/p>\n

“I love my ANC, no doubt, but the current leadership is a catastrophic plague. #zuma,” said one Twitter user.<\/p>\n

“What has to be done for #Zuma to be recalled?” asked another.<\/p>\n

By late Friday afternoon (29 November), #Zuma, #Nkandla, the ANC and Thuli Madonsela were trending across the South African Twittersphere.<\/p>\n

BusinessTech has compiled an infographic, looking at a few things the South African government could have better-spent R215 million on.<\/p>\n

A high-res version of the infographic can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Nkandla Infographic<\/p><\/div>\n

(with Sapa)<\/p>\n

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BusinessTech has compiled an infographic showing what could have been done with the R215 million spent of President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead upgrades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":50288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26,7105,83,5685,1968,1967,93],"class_list":["post-50284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline","tag-infographic","tag-jacob-zuma","tag-nkandla","tag-public-protector","tag-thuli-madonsela","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50284","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=50284"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50328,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50284\/revisions\/50328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}