News24 | 'Chair, your ruling is my command': MPs shield Ramaphosa from responding to raid on Speaker's house

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National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. (Jaco Marais/Gallo Images/Die Burger)

National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. (Jaco Marais/Gallo Images/Die Burger)

It was business as usual in Parliament on Tuesday, despite the notable absence of National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula.

This after her Johannesburg home was raided following allegations she had accepted bribes to the tune of R2.3 million when she was the minister of defence.

Opposition parties called on her to resign - and a political analyst said the raid and allegations placed Parliament's integrity at risk.

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