One Economy Foundation’s gender and child protection activist Veronica Theron says dress codes should also apply to men. “Nowadays you also find men wearing tight-fitted jeans revealing body parts, however, it is not addressed,” she says. Theron’s comments come after the International University of Management’s (IUM) main campus in Windhoek recently advised women students to...
The gay community is optimistic that the Namibian Constitution will prevail as the fate of the private member’s bills, introduced by Swapo lawmaker Jerry Ekandjo to prohibit gay marriages and criminalise homosexuality, hangs in uncertainty. Ekandjo’s bills aim to define the term “spouse” and amend the Marriage Act of 1961 to block the recognition of...
Human rights activist Jholerina Khoetage Timbo and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex and other (LGBTQI+) activist Wendelinus Hamutenya-Jeremiah have welcomed the appointment of France’s first openly gay prime minister Gabriel Attal last week. Attal was appointed by French president Immanuel Macron after the resignation of former prime minister Elisabeth Borne. “It is important to...
After nearly seven months in jail, Namibia Economic Freedom Fighters member Michael Amushelelo heard yesterday that he and a fellow activist, Dimbulukeni Nauyoma, have been found not guilty on the three charges on which they were prosecuted. Supporters of the two men who had filled the public gallery of the courtroom in which magistrate Linus...
Activists Michael Amushelelo and Dimbulukeni Nauyoma have been acquitted on all charges on which they were prosecuted in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court in Katutura. Future Media News spoke to Julieta Amushelelo, Michael’s wife. The post Activists acquitted as prosecution fails first appeared on Future Media. Source link
The Ministry of Industrialisation and Trade will today host a Namibia-South Africa Business Forum in Windhoek on the margins of the 3rd Session of the Namibia-South Africa Bi-National Commission which is co-chaired by President Hage Geingob, and President Cyril Ramaphosa, of South Africa. Here is the Ministry’s spokesperson, Elijah Mukubonda. Source link
Magistrate Linus Samunzala will on Thursday continue to hear arguments in the trial of activist Michael Amushelelo and his co-accused, Dimbulukeni Nauyoma, who are facing several charges, including incitement of violence and rioting, after their arrests on March 21. In the proceeding, the state called to the stand witnesses from the police, including two warrant...
Staff Reporter THE trial of activists Michael Amushelelo, Dimbulukeni Nauyoma, and parliamentarian Inna Hengari is currently underway at Katutura Court, with Magistrate Linus Samunzala presiding over the proceedings. During the court proceedings, three warrant officers from the Namibian Police were called as key witnesses by the state. According to their testimonies, the officers asserted that...