Maria Amakali
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Namibia: Squatter Law Challenge Torn Apart
A three-judge bench of the High Court dismantled land activist Dimbulukeni Nauyoma's constitutionality challenge of the squatters' proclamation law before throwing it out. → Read More
Namibia: Americans' Murder Trial On Hold
The Windhoek High Court had to temporarily halt the trial of two Americans accused of killing a Namibian man 10 years ago due to the ill-health of a defence lawyer. Judge Chistie Liebenberg made an order for the hearing to resume on 30 August. → Read More
Namibia: Ex-Ministers Declared Personae Non Grata By U.S.
Former Cabinet ministers Bernhard Esau, Sacky Shanghala and their immediate family members have now been declared personae non grata by the United States of America as a result of their alleged involvement in corruption involving millions of dollars. → Read More
Namibia: Lawyers Urged to Provide Voluntary Legal Aid
President Hage Geingob has called on private lawyers to do more pro bono work in an effort to improve the accessibility of law and justice to vulnerable sections of society. → Read More
Namibia: 400 GBV Cases Withdrawn in 2020
Despite growing calls by government officials discouraging the withdrawal of gender-based violence cases, the country has recorded 404 withdrawals last year, Chief Justice Peter Shivute announced yesterday. → Read More
Namibia: Nauyoma's Trial Put On Hold
The Katutura Magistrate's Court has put on hold the trial of land activist Dimbulukeni Nauyoma to wait for the High Court's ruling in which he is challenging the Squatters Proclamation Act. → Read More
Namibia: Govt Intensifies War On Sexual Violence... Pledges Resources to Boost GBV Unit
The protest of young people under the banner #ShutItAllDown against sexual and gender-based violence has yielded some results as government looks into filling nearly 160 vacancies within the police's gender-based violence protection unit as a matter of urgency. → Read More
Namibia: Prosecutor General to Decide Fate of Confessed Rapist
The fate of a Windhoek resident who confessed under oath of abducting and sexually violating a minor last year is now in the hands of the prosecutor general. → Read More
Namibia: Nghipunya Takes Release Fight to High Court
Suspended CEO of the State-owned National Fishing Corporation of Namibia (Fishcor) Mike Nghipunya has approached the High Court in an attempt to be released from police custody. → Read More
Namibia: N$160m Needed to Implement Witness Protection Programme
The Ministry of Justice has rubbished claims that it is purposefully delaying the implementation of the Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017 and the Witness Protection Act of 2017. The legislations, which were signed into law in 2017 by President Hage Geingob, could not be implemented due to budgetary constraints. However, the decision not to make the important legislations operational was seen… → Read More
Namibia: Final Remand for ACC to Complete Fishrot Probe
The Anti-Corruption Commission has been granted one last chance by the Windhoek Magistrate's Court to finalise ongoing investigations in the case of former ministers and businessmen implicated in the infamous Fishrot scandal. → Read More
Namibia: Missing Docket Delays Kandjii's Trial
The case of Katutura Central constituency councillor and parliamentarian Ambrosius Kandjii was postponed after the court could not locate his docket. → Read More
Namibia: Angolans Caught With Millions Remanded in Custody
The Katutura Magistrate's Court refused to release on bail three Angolan women who were arrested at Hosea Kutako International Airport with more than N$2.2 million in foreign currency, pending the prosecutor general's decision. → Read More
Namibia: Fishrot Suspects Claim Detention an Election Ploy
One of the lawyers representing businessmen and former Cabinet ministers charged with corruption, fraud and money laundering in the multi-million fisheries bribery case, yesterday claimed politics was behind their continued incarceration. → Read More
Namibia: Genocide Descendants Turn Up the Heat
Descendants of the 1904-1908 genocide in Namibia say they remain united against Germany in their pursuit of reparations for the colonial-era crime. → Read More
Namibia: Esau Claims Malicious Prosecution
Former cabinet minister Bernhardt Esau has bluntly denied using his office for personal gain, claiming he is an innocent man being targeted by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). → Read More
Namibia: Fishrot Accused to Face More Charges
Politicians and businessmen who are accused of receiving more than N$130 million in bribes for fishing quotas are likely to face more charges, an investigator of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) said last week. → Read More
Namibia: Trial of Sodomy Accused Ex-Hostel Caretaker Deferred
The trial of a former hostel superintendent, accused of raping 10 boys at an Otjiwarongo school, is scheduled to continue in September with or without his lawyer. → Read More
Namibia: Fishrot Accused Contributed to Economic Woes
The State has accused those implicated in the multi-million-dollar fisheries bribery scandal of having contributed to the country's economic demise. → Read More
Namibia: Fishrot Investigators Widen Net
One of the officers investigating the infamous Fishrot scandal says the amount misappropriated by those implicated has increased to N$13o million. → Read More