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Zuma architect builds mini-Nkandla

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….