Zuma has 45 days to pay R7.8m for Nkandla

President Jacob Zuma must pay the R7.8m he owes for the Nkandla upgrades by September to comply with a Constitutional Court order, says a BDlive report. He has 45 days in which to pay the money, following the Constitutional Court’s approval yesterday of the amount as stipulated by the National Treasury. The National Treasury calculated that Zuma should pay 87.9% of the cost of five items deemed non-security by Public Protector Thuli Madonsela in her 2014 report, Secure in Comfort, on security upgrades amounting to R246m at Zuma’s homestead at Nkandla. This amounted to R7.8m. The Treasury last month submitted to the court the ‘reasonable percentage’ it had determined.