JOHANNESBURG - Former Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is back on the witness stand as her corruption and money-laundering trial continues in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria.
On Monday, the court dismissed her application to have the charges against her withdrawn.
Mapisa-Nqakula faces 12 counts of corruption and one count of money laundering, stemming from allegations that she solicited and received millions of rand in bribes while serving as Defence Minister.
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She took the stand on Monday to give her version of events and denied allegations that she agreed with defence contractor Nombasa Ntsondwa-Ndhlovu to use coded language to conceal alleged bribe payments.
However, Mapisa-Nqakula has acknowledged meeting the State’s key witness three times in 2017.
She maintains that the meetings were purely social and insists that money was never discussed.