insert_link Namibia Ex-Air Namibia Employees Demand Justice Amid Ongoing Payment Delays Nearly four years after the national carrier, Air Namibia, ceased operations, former employees are intensifying their call for the payment of severance and retrenchment packages. Speaking to Future Media, Renier Bougart, one of the retrenched employees, shared the growing frustration among ex-Air Namibia staff, detailing the prolonged legal battle and stalled efforts to secure their legally mandated compensation. todayNovember 15, 2024 55
insert_link Uncategorized Donald Trump faces half a billion dollars of debt and several court cases. But that may not stop him from becoming president again By Emma Shortis, RMIT University The verdicts keep coming. On Friday US time, the three-month hearing focused on Donald Trump’s business dealings in New York came to an end. Trump was ordered to pay back more than $US350 million (A$537 million), plus interest. He and two of his associates are banned from directing any business in New York for three years. His two sons, Donald Jr and Eric […] todayFebruary 19, 2024 5
insert_link South Africa SA’s former Public Protector wants her pension and benefits South Africa’s former Public Protector Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane says she is awaiting communication from parliament over her loss of benefits after being fired. Mkhwebane told Newzroom Africa that she would approach the courts if those engagements fail. She is taking Parliament and her former office – the Public Protector of SA – to court for having forfeited her gratuity payment, believed to be R10 million. todayJanuary 15, 2024 9
insert_link Africa Isabel dos Santos loses legal battle as court freezes assets Billionaire Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of former Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, on Wednesday lost her fight against an application to freeze up to $735 million of her assets. The AFP news agency reports that Dos Santos was sued by Unitel, a telecoms operator in Angola. The company had asked London's High Court to grant a worldwide freezing order over the assets at a hearing last month. todayDecember 21, 2023 101