{"id":964858,"date":"2024-07-09T04:11:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T04:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964858"},"modified":"2024-07-09T04:11:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T04:11:28","slug":"mapisa-nqakula-back-in-court-for-corruption-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/mapisa-nqakula-back-in-court-for-corruption-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapisa-Nqakula back in court for corruption case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is expected to appear before the Pretoria Magistrate&#8217;s Court today in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v6iCopm7gn0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">corruption case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected to be a brief appearance as the State is expected to serve an indictment and enroll Mapisa-Nqakula&#8217;s matter at the High Court.<\/p>\n<p>During her last appearance in June, the State indicated that it would not be adding another accused in the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Mapisa-Nqakula is accused of soliciting about R4-million in bribes from a contractor during her tenure as defence minister.<\/p>\n<p>She faces 12 counts of corruption and one of money laundering.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The video below is reporting on the previous court appearance:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/re9PmvlKy-g?si=nAhzXIKXNDxcmoKC\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She faces 12 counts of corruption and one of money laundering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":964859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[884,885],"class_list":["post-964858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-former-national-assembly-speaker-nosiviwe-mapisa-nqakula","tag-nosiviwe-mapisa-nqakula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}