Mapisa-Nqakula spent the weekend at home with family, friends and advisors.A reliance on evidence from just one witness could weaken the state’s case in the National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula matter, says a leading legal expert.
Mapisa-Nqakula spent the weekend at home with family, friends and advisors. While the allegations could be damning, with Mapisa-Nqakula having expressed a concern that the NPA was out to humiliate her, Accountability Now executive director advocate Paul Hoffman has warned that a reliance on the sole evidence from whistle-blower Nombasa Ntsondwa-Ndhlovu, the owner of Umkhombe Marine, could weaken the state’s case.
“That will be a difficult onus for the state to discharge, especially if it is relying on evidence from a single witness, who is a Section 204 witness – somebody who is only talking because she does not want to get into trouble in other respects – without collaboration from other sources on the corrupt transactions.