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SABC acting head of news Jimi Matthews has ordered his newsroom to stop referring to President Jacob Zuma's rural retreat at Nkandla as a "compound" or a "homestead". Matthews wrote in an Email "Your [sic] are hereby notified that, with immediate effect, President Zuma's Nkandla home should be referred to as the President's, or Mr Zuma's, "Nkandla residence" and not a "compound" or "homestead" or any other such term. Please also refrain from using imported terminology in reporting on the controversy surrounding the infrastructure developments around the residence, such as "Nkandlagate", "Zumaville" and such like ."

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