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State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele has denied classifying the long-awaited findings of the probe into the 206 million rand upgrade of President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla homestead.
In a statement on Monday, Cwele appears to pass responsibility for the matter to his public works counterpart Thulas Nxesi, who late last month dashed expectations that the report would be tabled in Parliament.
The report was written by a task team of justice and security officials commissioned by Nxesi to investigate claims of irregularity in the use of public funds to improve Zuma's private home in the KwaZulu-Natal hamlet.
Cwele's office says that because the report is authored by the task team and owned by the commissioning minister of public works, the minister of state security cannot classify or de-classify it.
Meanwhile President Zuma's approval levels in urban areas have stabilised close to their lowest point since the last general
election.
According to a survey released by research company TNS South Africa, Zuma's approval rating in the middle two weeks of May stood at 42 percent.
In February, Zuma's approval ratings fell to their lowest with 41 percent saying they believed the president was doing a good job.
TNS says historically, the net sentiment towards the president has been positive in general, but with many sitting on the fence.
It says that over the past year, people who were undecided made up their minds about Zuma and fewer than 10 percent remained undecided.
The survey was conducted among a sample of 2-thousand adults from the seven major metropolitan areas in the country.
