Johannesburg – A month after President Jacob Zuma’s May 2009 inauguration, his personal architect, Minenhle Makhanya, bought a pig farm in the lush green hills around Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal.
Two months later, Makhanya, whom Zuma had retained to design extensions to his Nxamalala homestead, was appointed de factor project manager by the department of public works after being introduced to the government construction team by the first citizen….









