This is the money President Jacob Zuma took from public funds to upgrade his Nkandla private residence.

South Africa’s National Treasury has asked President Jacob Zuma to pay back the sum of 509,000 U.S. Dollars  part of the public funds he is accused to have  siphoned to upgrade his  private residence at Nkandla in the rural eastern province of KwaZulu- Natal, BBC reported. The presidency made no immediate comment on the treasury's calculation, which will now be reviewed by the Constitutional Court.

The amount Mr Zuma would have to repay follows the instructions the country’s Constitutional Court gave the national treasury in March 2016 to determine the value of non-security upgrades installed at the Nkandla Zuma’s traditional homestead. The refurbishing of the homestead included works such as a swimming pool, which was claimed to be a fire-fighting facility, a chicken run, a cattle enclosure, an amphitheatre and a visitors' centre, Mail Online said. The Constitutional Court earlier ruled that President Zuma should pay back a total of 23 million U.S. Dollars of public funds spent on his residence in 2009. The 509,000 U.S. Dollars demanded by the national treasury is just about three per cent of the initial amount, BBC reported.

The anti-corruption body known as the Public Protector, rules in 2014 that President Zuma had "unduly benefited" from the non-security renovations to his rural home in Nkandla.  The treasury stated after declaring the amount Mr Zuma has to pay back that it hired two independent quantity surveyors to conduct separate investigations to come up with the figure.