NKANDLAGATE: WHERE TO NOW? STATEMENT BY BANTU HOLOMISA, UDM PRESIDENT

"When people see my home on the TV, they must be thinking that government has built this for me. No. A large part of that... has been done by the family". This is what President Zuma said last week about his homestead in Nkandla (see report).

Today's City Press sheds dramatic new light on the issue and it is clear that President Zuma underestimates the intelligence of South Africans.

He is misleading the country; President Zuma is not building a safe and secure home for his retirement; he is building a private town of 25 houses, at R2.6 million each, using taxpayers' money.

It is shocking that one service provider was awarded a whopping R99.3 million of the R248 million spend -- with R33.4 million paid for so-called "emergency work" that did not go out on tender.

The African National Congress (ANC) should explain to the Nation what its position is on its deployee spending millions of taxpayer's Rands in this way. They indeed owe an explanation to the voters of this Country.

Statement issued by Bantu Holomisa MP, president of the United Democratic Movement, October 21 2012

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