GAUTENG. – The corruption case against Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, the former speaker of parliament, has been postponed in the Gauteng division of the High Court in Pretoria to 7 September for judgment. Mapisa-Nqakula is on trial on 12 counts of corruption and one count of money laundering.
Henry Mamothame, NPA spokesperson for the independent Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI), says the court will then deliver judgment on Mapisa-Nqakula's application in terms of section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Act, in which she asks to be discharged of some of the charges. This follows after her legal representatives and the DPCI's senior state advocate presented extensive submissions before the court. The state opposed the application.
Mapisa-Nqakula is accused of having solicited R4.5 million, of which R2.1 million was allegedly received in cash from a service provider.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
