Nkandla report

The most interesting highlights worth knowing about Madonsela's nkandla report.

After a 2 year investigation, the public protector released a full report on all upgrades which were done at Nkandla at the expense of taxpayers.  

Here are the highlights;

Full picture of the nkandla homestead

1.Public protector, Thuli Madonsela's report on the security upgrade at president Jacob Zuma's Nkandla home is entitled secure in comfort. It is just 450 pages and has a 75 page executive summary.

2. The final costs of Nkandla are "conservatively estimated" to amount 246 million, but could be higher.

3. The initial cost was 27 million, but it escalated rapidly after Zuma's private architect Minenhle Makhaya was appointed by the department of public works . He often recommended more luxurious and expensive options instead of going with the cheaper options and made R16.5 million(calculated as a percentage of all costs) from the nkandla project.

4. Zuma and his ministers should have acted when the Mail& Guardian blew the whistle in 2009 on the R65 million the project cost at that time, but the spending increased after that. Zuma violated the Executive ethics Code by failing to contain state spending and benefiting from it. He wore "two hats" http://goo.gl/TC0NBh

Public protector: Thuli Madonsela

5. Zuma told parliament that his family had built his family their own house and that the state had not built any from which they benefited, but this Madonsela accepted the evidence and that he had told them this "in good faith".

6. Zuma must pay for the non-security upgrades at his home, which include a visitors center, an amphitheater, a swimming pool, a cattle kraal, a culvert, a chicken run, and extensive paving. In the planning stages, there were constant references to Zuma having to repay these. Mail & Guardian these to cost around 20 million.

7. There was little precedent from previous presidential upgrades for the upgrades done at Nkandla. Former president Nelson Mandela, for instance, built his kraal at his own expense and did not require any"fire pool".http://mg.co.za/tag/nkandla-report

President J.Z in the upgraded kraal 

A president is a person of extremely high and stupendous stature, looking at the likes of Mr President Barack Obama, Goodluck Jonathan, Robert Mugabe and the like, you will definitely know how a presidents hospitality is like. President J.Z has been old in the tooth and has faced all storms of politics one could ever imagine of conquering, in his time of leadership the only thing he asked for was just simple security upgrades in his Nkandla homestead and nothing much. Demands from him regarding what he expected aren't known even unto this day because all he asked for was a simple security upgrade, to his surprise there was an exquisite upgrade done that mounted up to a massive 250 million,"they say".
Without any favoritism or any kind of act done i highly think and believe that the one and only president is innocent from all accusations held against him, the nigga deserves stupendous tranquility too. "Pay back the dignity".

Live video of the public protector; Thuli Madonsela, delivering her report on the Nkandla
upgrades.