Zuma Concedes on Home Upgrade Costs, Lawyer Warns on Impeachment
- Home improvement included amphitheater and swimming pool
- Malema says Zuma must leave office for violating constitution
Jacob Zuma’s homestead in Nkandla, South Africa in 2014.
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President Jacob Zuma is ready to pay back some of the state funds used to upgrade his private home, his lawyer said, as he urged South Africa’s highest court not to issue any ruling that opposition parties could exploit to begin impeachment proceedings.
“This is a delicate time in a dangerous year,” the president’s lawyer, Jeremy Gauntlett, told the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday. While the opposition Democratic Alliance and Economic Freedom Fighters parties may try to bring impeachment proceedings against Zuma, “it would be wrong that this court be put in a position to make some wide order which can be used.”