Mapisa-Nqakula gets week-long reprieve from arrest as her lawyer ...
National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. (Jaco Marais/Netwerk24)
National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula may not win her urgent bid to block the State from arresting her, but she has ensured it will not charge her until next week - which is when her lawyers want her to hand herself over to the police.
While the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) was adamant that people facing charges should not be able to dictate the terms under which they appear in court, it has agreed not to arrest the Speaker until Gauteng High Court Judge Sulet Potterill has ruled on her bid to block her arrest on 2 April - the day before her lawyers had suggested she could appear in court.
Those lawyers continue to insist, however, that the State's attempted prosecution of Mapisa-Nqakula has been defined by illegality - a contention the NPA vehemently denies.
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