SAF Parliament Speaker Faces Arrest Over Fraud Charges

A judge in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday threw out a petition brought by the speaker of parliament Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula to prevent her arrest on corruption and money laundering charges. The National Prosecuting Authority has accused the speaker of soliciting bribes worth about $240,000 from a defense contractor between 2016 and 2019 when she was Minister of Defense and Military Veterans. Professor Sipho Seepe , a political analyst and former Deputy Vice Chancellor for Institutional Support at the University of Zululand, tells VOA’s James Butty, the court ruling paves the way for the speaker’s arrest, or she will probably turn herself in to the police to be charged.