Treasury to determine money to be paid by Zuma in Nkandla case: minister

The National Treasury will determine a reasonable percentage of the costs that ought to be paid personally by President Jacob Zuma, South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Friday.

"We are currently studying the judgment to determine what process we will need to put in place in order to implement the court order," Gordhan said.

"National Treasury will constitute a team with necessary technical experts including quantity surveyors and lawyers to execute the mandate given to us by the Constitutional Court," he said.

He assured South Africans that the process will be transparent, thorough, and professional and within the rules of public finance management.

The Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled that Zuma should repay a portion of the money spent on security upgrades at his private homestead in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal Province.

The court found that Zuma flouted the Constitution by ignoring Public Protector Thuli Madonsela's findings into the Nkandla case.

Mandosela released the "Secure in Comfort" report in March 2014 into the final findings into the scandal, in which Zuma was accused of abusing public funding worth 246 million rand (about 16 million US dollars) in security upgrades at his Nkandla home.

Madonsela claims that Zuma's family unduly benefited from the project and asks Zuma to pay part of the money on the project, a demand rejected by Zuma then. Enditem