Nkandla compound firepool controversy

[4] In a report titled "Secure in Comfort",[6] Public Protector Thuli Madonsela concluded that Zuma should repay some of the improvements costs, having "benefited unduly" from them.

[4] However, Nkosinathi Nhleko, South Africa's Police Minister, said that Zuma was not liable for any reimbursements.

[2] On 31 March 2016 the Constitutional Court ruled that President Zuma violated the constitution when he failed to repay government money spent on his private home and it gave the treasury 60 days to determine how much he should repay.

In January 2024, at an address in Barberton, Mpumalanga, ahead of the ANC's 112th birthday celebrations ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula admitted that ANC MPs lied "in defence of our president [Zuma], we went to Parliament and opened an ad hoc committee and said a swimming pool is a fire pool.”[8][9] The pool at the Nkandla compound was built for slightly over R 3.9 million,[2][3] which was a part of several improvements at the Nkandla compound to improve security that totaled around $23 million.

[10] The total cost of the pool has been a point of contention among South African citizens and news media outlets.