The ANC in parliament has made a dramatic U-turn on its decision to approve a report absolving President Jacob Zuma of liability for renovations at his Nkandla home, with the party's chief whip telling MPs the move was a "spectacular own goal". In his prepared report to the caucus lekgotla, Jackson Mthembu told MPs that they needed to "interrogate" how they "voted [for] and passed" the Nkandla report, which absolved Zuma of liability after more than R246-million of public money was spent on renovating his home. "The midterm lekgotla needs to interrogate how we as the ANC component in parliament voted and passed a report on the security upgrades in the president's homestead that the Constitutional Court declared invalid and unconstitutional, which brought our credibility into question," the chief whip's report said. The Nkandla report, which was compiled by an ANC-dominated ad hoc committee, was declared invalid and unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court, and Zuma was ordered t...
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