Staff Reporter AN EDUCATION Ministry official, Lucia Kapusa, who is accused of fraud by her ex-boyfriend and the father of one of her children, appeared in the Rundu Magistrate’s Court on Friday. The case was postponed to the 11th of June for the fixing of a trial date. The complainant in the case, Nelson Antonio,...
The current leadership of Black Africa Sports Club has won a High Court case in which its control of the club was disputed by a rival leadership faction. In a judgement delivered in the Windhoek High Court on Friday, judge Herman Oosthuizen dismissed an application to have the club’s current leadership, under acting chairperson Thomas...
Angola’s Constitutional Court has overturned a five-year sentence that had been handed to the son of former president José Eduardo dos Santos for fraud. José Filomeno dos Santos was sentenced in 2020 for his role in the illegal transfer of U$500 million from Angola’s Sovereign Fund to a private account in the United Kingdom. He...
Four people, including a police officer from the Ongha Police Station, appeared in court after allegedly kidnapping human trafficking victims in a bid to return them to their traffickers. The four men appeared in the Ohangwena Magistrate’s Court last week and were kept in custody. The officer and three others are accused of aiding the...
Staff Reporter HIGH Court Judge, Justice Boas Usiku, has reserved his ruling to the 19th of April 2024, which will decide on the legality of the removal of two United People’s Movement members from parliament by the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) after a coalition agreement between the two parties turned sour. UPM President Jan Johannes...
Hertta-maria Amutenja The President of the United People’s Movement (UPM), Jan Johannes van Wyk, has filed an urgent application at the Windhoek High Court, challenging his abrupt withdrawal from the National Assembly (NA) earlier this month. According to the founding affidavit, Van Wyk seeks redress for what he claims to be an unconstitutional and invalid...
The court application by the African National Congress (ANC) to deregister uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party failed in the Electoral Court. Judge Lebogang Modiba said the ANC had no basis and the application was dismissed. “We find there is nothing unlawful about registration of MK party by the deputy chief electoral officer,” said the court, adding...
Russia has charged four men it says attacked a Moscow concert hall and killed at least 137 people. Three were marched bent double into a Moscow court while the fourth was in a wheelchair. All were charged with committing an act of terrorism. The Islamic State group, or IS, said it carried out Friday’s outrage...
Embattled South African speaker of parliament Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula handed herself to police in Pretoria central, where she was then arrested on Friday morning, according to reports. Mapisa-Nqakula, who was defence minister from 2012 to 2021, is accused of receiving millions of rand in cash as bribes from a military contractor when she was defence minister....
The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (Cran) last week won a Supreme Court challenge affirming its constitutional validity to levy regulatory fees. The ruling comes after a legal battle initiated by Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTC) challenging the legality of Cran’s authority under section 23 of the Communications Act. According to the act, Cran can impose...