National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula will have to hand herself in for arrest after the Pretoria High Court found no urgency in her interdict application.
The Speaker brought an application to halt her arrest, pending the handing over of her docket by the State.
Mapisa-Nqakula faces corruption-linked charges of accepting millions of rands in alleged bribes during her tenure as defence minister.
Judge Sulet Potterill narrowed down Mapisa-Nqakula’s arguments on urgency to being about her standing in society, the potential of unlawful arrest and prosecution, and the Speaker’s Constitutional right to dignity and freedom of movement being at risk.
“An arrest on its own cannot create urgency, especially when there is no apprehension of detention.”
Judge Potterill also considered the Speaker’s argument that the State’s case against her was weak.
“Whether there is a weak case is speculative and the court shall not consider this as a ground for urgency.”
The judge ruled that the court is not a means to declare an arrest that has not taken place unlawful or to express any view.
-EWN
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