Johnathan Paoli
National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s bid to interdict her arrest has officially been struck from the roll in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday which found her bid “speculative and unreasonable”.
Judge Sulet Potteries struck the Speaker’s urgent bid from the roll with cost and said she is “not unsure” about the state’s corruption case against Mapisa-Nqakula and declined to examine the evidence against her.
In dismissing Mapisa-Nqakula’s case, Potteries also said granting her application would culminate in a situation in which suspects could control the justice system.
“If the court grants such an order, the floodgates will be open, every suspect will be in a position to approach the court on an urgent basis, setting out on speculation that there is a weak case against it, interdict and arrest,” the judge said.
Potteries said that even though the court found that the matter was not
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