South African Treasury: Zuma should repay $510,000 for upgrades to private residence

President Jacob Zuma.

Johannesburg: South Africa's President Jacob Zuma should pay 7.8 million rand ($510,074) for non-security upgrades to his private Nkandla home, the National Treasury said on Monday.

In a stinging rebuke that hit the scandal-plagued leader financially and politically, the top court in Africa's most industrialized country in March ordered Zuma to pay back some of the $16 million of state money spent upgrading his private home.