{"id":212510,"date":"2024-03-24T12:35:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T12:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/za\/2024\/03\/24\/mapisa-nqakulas-urgent-application-to-be-heard-on-monday\/"},"modified":"2024-03-24T12:35:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T12:35:22","slug":"mapisa-nqakulas-urgent-application-to-be-heard-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/za\/2024\/03\/24\/mapisa-nqakulas-urgent-application-to-be-heard-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapisa-Nqakula\u2019s urgent application to be heard on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-prod.iol.co.za\/16x9\/800?source=https:\/\/xlibris.public.prod.oc.inl.infomaker.io:8443\/opencontent\/objects\/2989ea00-0dd5-5bb6-b724-a6a8ee6b7ab3\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"><\/p>\n<p>Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula\u2019s fight to prevent law enforcement agencies from arresting her is headed for the Pretoria High Court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>This was after the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) confirmed that the urgent application will before court.<\/p>\n<p>But the NPA said it will oppose the application as it was baseless.<\/p>\n<p>The stand-off began last week following a raid at her house in Johannesburg by the NPA\u2019s Investigating Directorate (ID). .<\/p>\n<p>The speaker has since taken special leave and parliament said this was provided for in the rules of the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Mapisa-Nqakula is accused of taking bribes totalling R2.3 million from a supplier in the department of defence. At the time of the alleged incidents Mapisa-Nqakula was minister of defence before she was deployed to parliament in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday the NPA said the urgent application will be heard in the high court on an urgent basis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is seeking an order interdicting NPA\u2019s ID from arresting her. The NPA\u2019s ID will oppose the application as we believe it is baseless and has no merit,\u201d said NPA spokesperson Mthunzi Mhaga.<\/p>\n<p>Mapisa-Nqakula has denied allegations of corruption against her.<\/p>\n<p>Political parties have called for Mapisa-Nqakula to quit. <\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-438433428184b05dc8b48f7904681b91\"><em id=\"emphasis-72ec91718abce4bd87d591974a836ec3\">siyabonga.mkhwanazi@inl.co.za<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-56a653f1d15217dda2b08062d7761042\"> Politics <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula\u2019s fight to prevent law enforcement agencies from arresting her is headed for the Pretoria High Court on Monday. This was after the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) confirmed that the urgent application will before court. But the NPA said it will oppose the application as it was baseless. The stand-off began last week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[3991,9344,16260,1124,7065],"class_list":["post-212510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics","tag-application","tag-heard","tag-mapisanqakulas","tag-monday","tag-urgent"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mapisa-Nqakula\u2019s urgent application to be heard on Monday - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/za\/2024\/03\/24\/mapisa-nqakulas-urgent-application-to-be-heard-on-monday\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mapisa-Nqakula\u2019s urgent application to be heard on Monday - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula\u2019s fight to prevent law enforcement agencies from arresting her is headed for the Pretoria High Court on Monday. 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