Affirmative Repositioning movement leader Job Amupanda wants to rework the lawsuit that he filed at the Windhoek High Court nearly three years ago in an attempt to have Namibia’s veterinary cordon fence removed. Amupanda has encountered opposition to his latest move in the case that he filed at the High Court in May 2021, though,...
Hertta-Maria Amutenja In a lawsuit filed by Foibe Kauikalelwa Israel against the Minister of Health and Social Services, the grieving mother seeks justice and compensation following a series of allegedly negligent actions that led to the death of her newborn baby during birth. According to the particulars of the claim filed at the Windhoek High...
Niël Terblanché The Former Chief Executive Officer of the Walvis Bay Municipality, Muronga Haingura, has taken legal action against the Walvis Bay town council, former regional councillor Knowledge Ipinge, and municipal employee relations officer Gertrude Usiku, alleging defamation and demanding N$1.5 million in compensation. The lawsuit stems from accusations that Haingura misappropriated N$24 million intended...
Hip-Hop mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and his ex-girlfriend, R&B vocalist Cassandra Ventura, on Friday settled the lawsuit in which she accused the rapper of serial physical abuse, sexual slavery and rape, according to her lawyers. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. In a joint written statement with Combs, Ventura said she “decided to...
The Landless Peoples’ Movement (LPM) is threatening to sue the minister of urban and rural development, Erastus Uutoni, and the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) over the “malicious prosecution” of two councillors and an official of the Karasburg Town Council. LPM leader Bernadus Swartbooi says council employees cannot be arrested and taken to court for executing their...
A SAUDI Arabian company and five Saudi investors have for the second time withdrawn a multimillion-dollar lawsuit that they filed in the Windhoek High Court against British businessman and farm owner Harvey Boulter. The six plaintiffs’ case against Boulter and his company Porton Managers was removed from the court roll in an order given by...
Affirmative Repositioning movement leader Job Amupanda wants to use text messages sent to him by one of deputy minister of finance and public enterprises Maureen Hinda-Mbuende’s witnesses in a defamation of character case in which he is being sued for N$1 million. The lawsuit came after Amupanda posted a picture of a woman on his...
Staff Reporter THE civil trial involving Job Amupanda, the former Mayor of Windhoek and an AR Activist, who is facing a lawsuit from Maureen Hinda, the Deputy Minister of Finance and Public Enterprise, for N$1 000 000 over allegations of defamation, began on Monday morning in the High Court of Namibia. During her evidence in...
Samuel Shinedima THE High Court of Namibia has ordered the Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety, and Security to pay former Commander of the Namibian Defence Force (NDF), Major General Thomas Nghilifavali Hamunyela “Nopoudjuu” N$200 000 for being unlawfully arrested. Hamunyela was arrested at his farm in Kavango on allegations of stock theft in January...
Reuters reports that a federal judge has thrown out Donald Trump’s $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN, in which the former U.S. president claimed the network’s description of his election fraud as the “big lie” associated him with Adolf Hitler. In a ruling late on Friday night, U.S. Judge Raag Singhal, who was nominated by...