play_arrow

keyboard_arrow_right

Listeners:

Top listeners:

skip_previous skip_next
00:00 00:00
playlist_play chevron_left
volume_up
  • play_arrow

    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

court ruling

4 Results / Page 1 of 1

Background

Namibia

NEFF wins case against Electoral Commission of Namibia

The Namibia Economic Freedom Fighters has won its case against the Electoral Commission of Namibia after the commission cancelled the party's registration in June. In a judgment delivered on Thursday, Judge Thomas Masuku set aside the ECN’s decision. Speaking outside the courthouse after the ruling, NEFF spokesperson Teresia Hamurenge, shared the way forward.     Political Analyst, Advocate Queen Kasirua says the Namibia Economic Freedom Fighters were robbed of valuable […]

todaySeptember 5, 2024 33

Namibia

Esau allowed to access frozen assets

    The former minister of fisheries and marine resources, Bernhardt Esau has succeeded in his bid to have access to his frozen assets, in order to afford his legal fees. A High Court ruling delivered on Wednesday by Judge Beatrix de Jager sets out that Esau shall be allowed access to N.dollars 1 235 738.44 or less to meet his current legal expenses. Judge De Jager also ordered that […]

todayJuly 10, 2024 28

Namibia

Namibia’s sodomy laws have been overturned – what that means for LGBTIQ+ rights in the country

Bennian/Getty Images, CC BY     By John Nakuta, University of Namibia     The Namibian high court recently invalidated the country’s colonial-era “sodomy law”, which had made consensual sexual acts between men a criminal offence. The court declared that the common law offences of “sodomy” and “unnatural sexual offences” were unconstitutional. This ruling follows a separate decision in 2023 where Namibia’s supreme court ruled to recognise certain same-sex unions […]

todayJuly 8, 2024 33

Business / Economics

South Africa, Joburg building fire survivors demand better housing after their settlement floods

By Kimberly Mutandiro  via GroundUp Albert Street building fire survivors and activists, who are part of the Marshalltown Fire Justice Campaign, meet at the Denver settlement on the outskirts of the city centre on Wednesday to discuss their poor living conditions. Photo: Kimberly Mutandiro Survivors of the Albert Street building fire in Johannesburg and activists gathered on Wednesday for an emergency meeting. The building was engulfed in a fire in August […]

todayJanuary 12, 2024 19

0%