UK Gives �19million Aid To South Africa - Its President Spends �17.5million On His Palace
It is a nation racked by poverty, where 13 million people survive on less than �1 a day, and two million have no access to a toilet.
Yet as his people struggle in squalor, South African president Jacob Zuma has sparked outrage by spending �17.5 million to upgrade his rural family home.
Lavish works � which include the construction of 31 new houses, an underground bunker accessed by lifts and a helipad � will cost almost as much as the �19 million British taxpayers send to South Africa in annual aid.