MKP chief whip Mmabatho Mokoena-Zondi, who was recently charged with corruption for extorting money from MKP, was convicted of faking her academic qualifications.

uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) chief whip, Mmabatho Mokoena-Zondi, who is out on R30,000 bail for extorting money from her party’s parliamentary staff, might be a perpetual fraudster as she was investigated more than a decade ago for faking her academic qualification.

The MKP recently removed Mokoena-Zondi as one of its representatives in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Impeachment Committee after she was granted bail in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court for charges related to allegations that she illegally docked R233,000 from the party’s employees' salaries.

She would appear in the Belville Commercial Crime Court on June 18.

It has been reported that she has since stepped down as the chief whip.