Imagine spending R246 million on home renovations… what could you do with that amount of money?
The initial project, which involved security upgrades to the Nkandla property, was only supposed to cost R27 million. That is still a lot of money when you consider what you could do with a budget like that, or how many homes could be built to house families in need.
The damning evidence in Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s Nkandla report on the upgrades to President Jacob Zuma’s private residence using taxpayers’ money begs the ethical question of how our first citizen could have ”tacitly accepted” renovations on such a grand scale.