Judge dismisses Mapisa-Nqakula's 'weak' corruption case claims as 'pure speculation'
The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has struck from the roll National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula's urgent bid to block her arrest for corruption, after dismissing her claims that the case against her was weak as"pure speculation".
"There's not a single fact set out as to why the future arrest will be unlawful, seemingly because there's a weak case made out. Yet does not know what case has been made out and this pure speculation. I can make no finding on such speculation that there will be an unlawful arrest or that there is a weak case," Judge Sulet Potterill stated.South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future.
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