{"id":45747,"date":"2026-09-17T12:06:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45747"},"modified":"2026-09-17T12:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:06:34","slug":"former-sa-parliament-speaker-mapisa-nqakula-back-on-stand-over-money-trail","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/former-sa-parliament-speaker-mapisa-nqakula-back-on-stand-over-money-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Former SA Parliament Speaker Mapisa-Nqakula back on stand over money trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Former South African (SA) National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is back on the witness stand in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, Gauteng Province as her version of where her money came from comes under scrutiny.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Mapisa-Nqakula has been detailing the salary and allowances she received while serving as Defence Minister, including foreign currency allowances for official travel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">She faces 12 counts of corruption and one of money laundering, arising from allegations that she solicited millions of rands in cash and benefits from defence contractor Nombasa Ntsondwa-Ndhlovu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Mapisa-Nqakula has pleaded not guilty and denies receiving corrupt payments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":42422,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-45747","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Mapisa-Nqakula is back on the witness stand in the Gauteng High Court","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45747","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\/45747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45748,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45747\/revisions\/45748"}],"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=45747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=45747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}