SACKED Mpumalanga deputy speaker Cynthia Maropeng is scheduled to appear in the Nelspruit Magistrate’s Court on Friday on charges of defrauding the provincial government. Maropeng and her two co-accused, former legislature finance director Jomo Siboza and administration head Wilson Ngwenya, face one theft and nine fraud charges involving R1,1-million allegedly misappropriated from the provincial legislature.