Speaker Mapisa-Nqakula fully cooperated with NPA search of her home - Parliament

CAPE TOWN - Parliament said that Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula fully cooperated with a five-hour-long search of her home by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Tuesday.

This follows corruption allegations leveled against her during her tenure as defence minister. 

Mapisa-Nqakula said she was committed to serving the public with honour and strongly denied the claims that she'd received over R2 million from a defence contractor. 

Since corruption allegations against Mapisa-Nqakula re-surfaced, she’s been out of the country on official business - first to Paris, and then New York. 

Parliament on Tuesday confirmed the NPA conducted a search and seizure at her home in connection with these allegations. 

The claims were brought to Parliament’s joint standing committee on defence two years ago but an investigation was never carried out due to the anonymity of the source.

Now Mapisa-Nqakula is believed to be implicated in an affidavit for immunity by the defence contractor in question. 

But Parliament said that Mapisa-Nqakula had nothing to hide and welcomed the investigators into her home on Tuesday, which was searched for five hours. 

The legislature said she was profoundly disturbed by the allegations, which go against what she represents. 

Parliament said that the morning’s events meant she was unable to travel to Cape Town to preside over the president’s question time on Tuesday afternoon.