Johannesburg - Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema is not prepared to accept President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla settlement proposal unless he agrees to the party's terms.
"We not going to agree to any settlement until he reaffirms the powers of public protector, and two [reaffirms that] the remedial actions of public protector are binding and three that President Zuma agrees in the settlement that [by] failing to implement the remedial action he was in breach of the Constitution and his oath of office," Malema told reporters in Johannesburg on Thursday.
"We will not agree that he had all the right to behave in the manner he did. We are not going to be party to any settlement which does not speak to those three points."
On Tuesday, Zuma sent a letter to the court to suggest that it order the auditor general and finance minister to determine how much he should pay back for the multi-million rand upgrades to non-security features at his home in Nkandla. Zuma was prepared to pay for the visitors' centre, the amphitheatre, the cattle kraal, chicken run and the swimming pool.
There was a "need for finality", Zuma's lawyers said.