'Mandela's Qunu home had a fire pool' – As it happened

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Check out News24 for full wraps on the day's events, following Police Minister Nathi Nhleko's second briefing on his Nkandla report.

Scroll down to see how events unfolded at the media briefing in Pretoria...

“I don’t want to jump into conclusions about the [21] houses,” Nhleko answers.

“I need to establish how we came to the 21 houses, what actually transpired and what the logic was.

“But also who decided to use one cost centre for two different projects.

“That will inform me what direction I need to take in that regard.”

“I’ve focused on four security issues (only). “I don’t understand the fixation on houses and the R135m [excess].

“It's important to follow proper steps,” he concludes.

Nhleko: “The Public Protector never said he [Zuma] must count money.

“Calculation is when you give me a figure and I must calculate the figure.

“There is a difference between calculations and a determination.

“When you say I must ‘determine’, there is an evaluation and assessment aspect to that.”

Nhleko: "Some questions have already been posed.

"Some of these questions are very interesting because they are part of the debate we should be having in society.

“All presidents which have served the Republic before... they still enjoy security help.

“That's how the State is essentially designed.

“At another point... is the extent to which South Africa as a state has dealt with these issues in the past."

Question 10: “Why is SIU going after the architect if the only issue is the 21 houses?”

Question 11: “When a new president comes in in 2019, is there a danger of a new Nkandla?”

And he returns to battle the last round of questions...

"I had to do it," he chimes to laughter from the assembled media.

Minister Nhleko has asked for a brief bathroom break.

Nhleko:  “It's difficult because it hinges on what those features are and the extent and scope of those particular features.

“If you’re going to do a re-evaluation it doesn't deal with cost factor.

“Costing is something else which will need to come out of it.

“The point I was trying to stress is that there are various things which needed to be completed, certain aspects also needed to be re-evaluated.”

Question 8: “Who built the houses?”

Question 9: “How much will it cost?”

“Another point we make in the report... is if you talk to any security person, including a non-security person, don't you think the extent to which you [the media] have opened up this matter makes the president vulnerable?

“Now that we have gone this route, there has to be a re-evaluation of the security.”

“One of the thing’s running across different reports - work which is incomplete - must be completed,” Nhleko continues.

“There are things which have not been completed. Most of the Nkandla reports make this observation. We make a similar observation.”

“Two questions about what happens after [President Zuma leaves office]. You are looking at the president's homestead as having been constructed using tax payers’ money, that is a problem.

“We’re talking about security upgrades, not the construction of houses.

“The President like all others, once they retire they still get subjected to a package, with security detail.

“The extent may not be the same so that issue shall always be there. Even if retired, the State is still concerned with the president’s security.”

“The report I produced has everything to do with resolutions of parliament and everyone at liberty to see it in any way he or she sees fit.

“If you disagree that's fine, I accept that but then get into the detail and the content of what I put across.

“The Minister asks people to come forward with proof if they disagree with his report.”

Question 6: “What will it cost to maintain Nkandla on an annual basis?”

Question 7: “Is the pool being used for recreational use at the moment?”

Fifth question asked by another journalist about additional security features needed to Nkandla.

“Once President Zuma retires, the question remains, will he still continue to maintain such a large property?

Journalist: “Can we have a media tour of Nkandla?”

Nhleko: There is nothing wrong if the media asks the chair of the ad hoc committee if the media can go with on Nkandla site visit.”

Journalist: “It's concerning that you don’t know who made decision to build them.”

Nhleko: “We have not spoken of any separate investigation into the 21 houses.”

“I still do think that perhaps one of the considerations should be a sprinkler system, but there needs to be sufficient water pressure,” Nhleko says in answer to Question 3.

“On the 21 houses - it is worth looking into.

“We need to know who constructed those houses by whose decision. Who decided to use that construction, which is situated completely outside the property of the president to be lumped with the security upgrades?”

Question 3: Would a sprinkler system not have worked?

Nhleko says it’s a valid question, but that we must remember “when firefighters came on scene they explained that there was not sufficient water pressure from the hydrant.”

Nhleko continues to answer Question 1 & 2:

“The question of the local capacity for the municipality is valid. Rural and district municipalities do need to be equipped, but on the one hand if you’re faced with a situation where you have a president elected and he lives in a particular area, security practitioners must attend to security matters.”

“It became important to understand this thing. All of us South Africans need to understand.

“Many people I have spoken to said, when I released this report, that people said they were starting to understand things they didn't understand before."

Nhelko: “It is important to continue with engagement on the issue. The issue has been spoken about quite a lot.

“At the time the Public Protector’s report was released, some of these issues were also baffling for me.

“So how does a swimming pool become a security feature, the other was the amphitheatre...

“Those were baffling for me. But it took getting closer to the issues to try understand... what we are dealing with is not what I think, it's what ‘s been established.”

Question 1: Why are the houses separate from Nkandla? Would they have been constructed if Nkandla wasn't there? But they’re there to protect the president, so isn't it part of security?”

Question 2: Do you feel you were not understood the first time you gave us the report? This is a rehash.”

“That issue requires some further work.

“My brief for now was what constituted security upgrades – a pool, kraal/chicken run, amphitheatre and visitor centre.”

“The question is whether or not between the two spending patterns is there consistency.

“The R32m which we spent in Qunu translates to R71m today.”

“This culvert is broken into two - a walkway and a livestock underpass (in Qunu). This culvert, when constructing it, we had to cut off the highway (N2) because of security,” Nhleko says.

“The question of the culvert in Nkandla is not a new thing in terms of security. It's what we have also done in other areas.

“One of the interesting things that requires a follow up, if I'm not mistaken, is security upgrades in Qunu were done almost 10 years ago and spent R32m.

"In 2009, we needed security upgrades and spent R50.5m.”

The minister is now showing the media a picture of late former president Nelson Mandela’s Qunu home.

“It also had a firepool,” he says.

“There is a reason for that. The head of the homestead, when he emerges in the morning, the first thing he has to see is his live stock. But then he, the expert told them what a kraal was and why we can't move it.”

The minister is now showing a video of the animal kraal...

“At other presidential residences, cats were a problem in triggering the beams. So it was felt live stock needed to be moved from the internal perimeter fence to outer.

“For cattle to move in and out, they use an opening under the fence so they don’t interfere with the security system.”

“The family kraal is still there, with the animal enclosure at the base of the property.

“The dome is a chicken run. It’s a funny looking kraal. I haven’t seen a kraal with all in one - chickens, goats and cattle.”