{"id":43245,"date":"2026-08-20T10:48:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T08:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=43245"},"modified":"2026-08-20T10:48:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T08:48:51","slug":"sa-former-minister-mapisa-nqakula-corruption-case-back-in-court","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-former-minister-mapisa-nqakula-corruption-case-back-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"SA former Minister Mapisa-Nqakula corruption case back in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Gauteng High Court in Pretoria will today hear an update from the defence of former Speaker of the National Assembly and Defence Minister, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, on its planned application for a discharge of the corruption charges against her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Last week, the defence of Mapisa-Nqakula informed the court that it intends to bring an application for a discharge in terms of section 174 of the criminal procedure act.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The defence argues that the state has failed to present sufficient evidence to justify putting her to her defence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The court is expected to hear an update on the application today and determine the next step in the proceedings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The former Speaker has pleaded not guilty to 12 counts of corruption and one count of money laundering.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":43246,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-43245","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43247,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43245\/revisions\/43247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=43245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}