Zuma ordered to repay $509,000 used in rehabilitating Nkandla residence

South Africa’s treasury has recommended President Jacob Zuma pay back $509,000 (£385,000) to the government for upgrades made to his private home.

This comes after the country’s highest court ruled earlier this year that Mr Zuma repay some of the $23m of public funds spent on his house in 2009.

The upgrades included an amphitheatre, pool, chicken run and cattle enclosure.

Mr Zuma must now repay the money – about 3% of the total spent – within 45 days.

An anti-corruption body, known as the public protector, ruled in 2014 that Mr Zuma had “unduly benefited” from the non-security renovations to his rural home in Nkandla in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province.

In March, the Constitutional Court then ruled that he had violated the constitution when he failed to repay some of the money.

It gave the treasury two months to come up with a figure for Mr Zuma to repay.

The treasury says it hired two independent quantity surveyors to conduct separate investigations to come up with the figure.BBC