Mapisa-Nqakula should be prosecuted for flouting the law
22 May 2016
Defence and Military Veterans Minister, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has shown disregard for the rule of law embodied in the Immigration Act 13 of 2002 as well as the Executive Code of Ethics, designed to hold members of the executive accountable and to ensure that good and clean governance prevails above personal interest and self-enrichment.
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has a duty to prosecute the Minister for violating Section 49 (2) of the Immigration Act. Failing which the NPA head, Adv Shaun Abrahams, must make public the record of decision not to prosecute.
Minister Mapisa-Nqakula, usually shrouded in scandal, has been reported to having left Waterkloof Air Force Base to the Democratic Republic of Congo to fetch 20-year-old Michelle Wege in January 2014. Wege had been detained by officials at Kinshasa International Airport 10 days prior when she tried to board a South African Airways flight to Johannesburg with a fraudulent Congolese passport that had been arranged by Mapisa-Nqakula’s sister, Nosithembele.
Added to this, Mapisa-Nqakula used more than five officials from her office to negotiate Wege’s release into her care.