{"id":44907,"date":"2026-09-08T09:17:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T07:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=44907"},"modified":"2026-09-08T09:17:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T07:17:03","slug":"sas-former-national-assembly-speaker-mapisa-nqakula-corruption-trial-resumes","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-former-national-assembly-speaker-mapisa-nqakula-corruption-trial-resumes\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s former National Assembly Speaker\u00a0Mapisa-Nqakula corruption trial resumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Corruption trial of former South African (SA) National Assembly Speaker, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula will resume in Gauteng High Court sitting in Pretoria this morning.<\/div>\n<div>\nMapisa-Nqakula \u00a0is facing 12 counts of corruption and one of money laundering for allegedly soliciting bribes worth millions of Rands from a contractor, Nombasa Ntsondwa-Ndhlovu between 2016 and 2019 when she was the Defence Minister.<\/div>\n<div>\nOn Monday, the court dismissed her application to have the charges against her dropped ruling that her corruption trial should proceed.<\/div>\n<div>\nMapisa-Nqakula took the stand and detailed how she met Ntsondwa-Ndhlovu.<\/div>\n<div>\n&#8211;SABC&#8212;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":42422,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-44907","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":"Former SA National Assembly Speaker, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44907","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\/44907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44908,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44907\/revisions\/44908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=44907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}