Regular Booker Rising readers already know about this controversy. Mr. Malala, a South African center-right columnist, writes: "First we heard that Zuma deserves such largesse because he is the
president of the country and therefore his security needs to be ensured. Then we couldn't be given details of the expenditure because the place is a 'national key point'. Really? His three state-owned houses [in Pretoria, Cape Town, and KwaZulu-Natal] may be national key points (that is, sensitive from a national security perspective) but I still have to find a reason why this man's private residence is a sensitive security installation deserving of a R238-million [US$26.8 million] upgrading."
"More: "When journalists cornered [Public Works Minister Thulas] Nxesi he then revealed that, actually, we are judging the president from a middle-class viewpoint.
I think the country is going to the dogs when we start saying that looting the state is part of African culture, which is basically what Nxesi was saying.
Then the man said he would hunt down and prosecute whoever leaked this story to the City Press newspaper. The whole thing makes one want to puke.
So the outrageous spending of R238-million of taxpayers' money is not worth investigating but the whistle-blower will be hunted down and punished by the minister? Is this really the ANC of Oliver Tambo?"
Justice Malala Slams South African President For Using $27 Million In Taxpayer Dollars To Upgrade His Rural Mansion
