South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma will pay back some of the public funds used to renovate his private home, attempting to end a two-year scandal that has plagued his government.
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela, the country’s ombudswoman, ruled in 2014 that Zuma and his family had “benefited unduly” from the work on Zuma’s rural residence of Nkandla.
The EFF and the Democratic Alliance (DA) have taken the matter to the Constitutional Court, with a hearing set for next Tuesday.
The presidency said in a statement issued late on Tuesday night Mr Zuma had proposed that the chief auditor and the finance minister fix the amount due from him in order to "achieve an end to the drawn-out dispute".
The upgrades were valued in 2014 at about 216 million rand (then worth $24 million, 22 million euros).
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