PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma is well known for his three-part harmony chuckle, often rendered as "heh heh heh" in cartoons and other writings chronicling his mirth. Following the news that he timeously paid the money he was ordered by the Constitutional Court to hand over for five nonsecurity enhancements to his home in Nkandla, he has cause to chuckle frequently. He has not actually complied with either the EFF demand that he "Pay back the money!" or with the remedial action the public protector required him to take in her famous Secure in Comfort report of March 2014. Simple arithmetic reveals that the president has, thus far anyway, escaped with only the lightest of "fines" for the malfeasance perpetrated during the Department of Public Works’ debacle of excessive expenditure during the execution of supposed "security upgrades" at his country seat in Nkandla. Estimates of the total expenditure vary: taking the lowest of these, R246m, and deducting, for the purposes of argument and not in...
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