Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula in the dock on Wednesday during her corruption trial.
United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa was shocked when members of the Standing Committee on Defence were more concerned about where the complaint of allegedly soliciting bribes by former minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula came from than the complaint itself.
This is according to Holomisa, who was the first witness to take the stand in Mapisa-Nqakula’s corruption trial, which officially kicked off on Wednesday, nearly two years after she surrendered to the police.
She pleaded not guilty to 12 charges of corruption and one of money laundering. The State alleges that she solicited R4.5 million in bribes from a contractor during her time as Defence minister.
Holomisa was the first person to bring the allegations to the attention of the chairperson of Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence.
