National
Kraal at Nkandla could not be moved - Nhleko─── 14:35 Tue, 21 Jul 2015
Pietermaritzburg - A kraal in President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead could not be moved due to Zulu culture, Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko told Parliament’s ad hoc committee on Nkandla.
He briefed the committee in the KwaZulu-Natal legislature in Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday.
Thus a new animal enclosure that included a culvert and a chicken run had to be built in a remote part of the homestead so the animals would not trigger the motion detector beams, Nhleko explained.
The committee, which includes members of the ANC, DA, ACDP and NFP, is expected to visit Nkandla on Wednesday.
It is studying Nhleko’s report - released on May 28 - in which he said Zuma did not have to repay any of the R246m spent on so-called security upgrades at Nkandla.
“In Pretoria we had a problem at Mahlamba Ndlopfu [Zuma’s official residence] and the OR Tambo house. We had a problem with cats. The system triggered false alarms and security personnel became despondent because of the false alarms,” he said.
He said they consulted a retired University of KwaZulu-Natal lecturer, a Mr Ntshangase, on whether the kraal, which also houses chickens, could be moved.
“He told us that a kraal was a sacred place, a place where meat is eaten, a place to bury a loved one. He told us that it was rare to move a kraal and you must have an exceptional reason to move a kraal.”
- News24.com
Thus a new animal enclosure that included a culvert and a chicken run had to be built in a remote part of the homestead so the animals would not trigger the motion detector beams, Nhleko explained.
The committee, which includes members of the ANC, DA, ACDP and NFP, is expected to visit Nkandla on Wednesday.
It is studying Nhleko’s report - released on May 28 - in which he said Zuma did not have to repay any of the R246m spent on so-called security upgrades at Nkandla.
“In Pretoria we had a problem at Mahlamba Ndlopfu [Zuma’s official residence] and the OR Tambo house. We had a problem with cats. The system triggered false alarms and security personnel became despondent because of the false alarms,” he said.
He said they consulted a retired University of KwaZulu-Natal lecturer, a Mr Ntshangase, on whether the kraal, which also houses chickens, could be moved.
“He told us that a kraal was a sacred place, a place where meat is eaten, a place to bury a loved one. He told us that it was rare to move a kraal and you must have an exceptional reason to move a kraal.”
- News24.com
