{"id":91270,"date":"2015-06-22T12:58:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T10:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=91270"},"modified":"2015-06-22T13:08:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T11:08:14","slug":"zuma-square-shopping-mall-for-nkandla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/91270\/zuma-square-shopping-mall-for-nkandla\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Zuma Square&#8221; shopping mall for Nkandla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Jacob Zuma has quipped that development at his Nkandla homestead was still underway, and that he has plans to build a shopping mall when he retires.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/kwazulu-natal\/i-ll-build-nkandla-mall-zuma-1.1874351#.VYfnJ_mqpBd\" target=\"_blank\">report by IOL<\/a>, quoting the president who was speaking the opening of Mavundla Square in Greytown, in his mother tongue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I retire I want to build my own mall and name it Zuma Square in Nkandla town. Definitely I will build it,&#8221; Zuma was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The mall would be known as &#8220;Zuma Square&#8221;, IOL reported.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[MUST WATCH] President Zuma jokes about Nkandla in Parliament\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aDJ353jLOyY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Zuma reportedly joked with journalists, saying that he would one day window shop at the mall, but would not buy anything &#8220;because I don&#8217;t have money&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Zuma has come under severe scrutiny and faces criticism for the Nkandla scandal, in which over R246 million of taxpayers&#8217; money was used to upgrade his private home in the name of\u00a0 &#8220;security&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/88918\/is-zumas-fire-pool-worth-r4-million\/\" target=\"_blank\">This is what Zuma\u2019s R4 million fire pool looks like<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Various investigations have been conducted into the matter, with most absolving the president from any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>However, opposition parties and citizens have not let the matter rest, with political players often chanting &#8220;Pay Back The Money&#8221;, and disrupting Parliamentary proceedings to draw it back into the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>Zuma has responded to the scandal with a humorous stance, often laughing away the criticism and shrugging off responsibility.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Nkandla<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This is what Zuma\u2019s R4 million fire pool looks like\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/88918\/is-zumas-fire-pool-worth-r4-million\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is what Zuma\u2019s R4 million fire pool looks like<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to What Nkandla\u2019s R246m security upgrades could have bought\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/international\/69305\/what-nkandlas-r246m-security-upgrades-could-have-bought\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">What Nkandla\u2019s R246m security upgrades could have bought<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How Nkandla\u2019s millions could have been better spent\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/54580\/how-nkandlas-millions-could-have-been-better-spent\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How Nkandla\u2019s millions could have been better spent<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How to better spend Nkandla\u2019s millions\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/50284\/how-to-better-spend-nkandlas-millions\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to better spend Nkandla\u2019s millions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Jacob Zuma has quipped that development at his Nkandla homestead was still underway, and that he has plans to build a shopping mall when he retires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":45809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26,5685,6397],"class_list":["post-91270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline","tag-nkandla","tag-zuma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91270","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=91270"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91282,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91270\/revisions\/91282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}