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Imprisoned former National Assembly member Geoffrey Mwilima has lost a Supreme Court appeal through which he tried to get a court order for his release from prison on medical grounds.

%%title%% %%sep%% %%primary_category%% %%sep%% %%sitename%% %%sep%% The Namibia Central Intelligence Service (NCIS) has won a Supreme Court appeal against a judgement in which the NCIS was ordered to reinstate a staff member who was dismissed after he received a second salary.

NAMIBIAN authorities say they are “meticulously examining” documents relating to the looting of the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Bank of about N$247 million (about US$15 million) to determine whether any criminal activities and Zimbabwean businessman Enoch Kamushinda (pictured) contributed to the bank’s collapse in 2017. BY NATHAN GUMA The country’s courts have said Kamushinda…

%%title%% %%sep%% %%primary_category%% %%sep%% %%sitename%% %%sep%% Sally Joan Kauluma (formerly Sally Camp) arrived in Namibia in 1964 from the United States (US), her home country, with the aim of making a positive impact on people’s lives.

%%title%% %%sep%% %%primary_category%% %%sep%% %%sitename%% %%sep%% Prosecutor general (PG) Martha Imalwa says

%%title%% %%sep%% %%primary_category%% %%sep%% %%sitename%% %%sep%% As Namibia celebrates the 34th anniversary of its independence, it is also an opportunity to celebrate the judicial independence the country has enjoyed for the last 34 years.

A leadership dispute that has been dividing the Witbooi traditional community for eight years should be resolved by the Witbooi royal family in line with directives given by former minister of urban and rural development Sophia Shaningwa in 2017, the Supreme Court says.

Ishmael Witbooi is embroiled in a chieftainship battle over the Witbooi Traditional Authority with his nephew, Solomon Witbooi.

The fatal assault that three Windhoek City Police officers carried out on a teenager in April 2013 was “a plainly brutal and cruel attack”, a Supreme Court judge has commented in a judgement in which the three former officers’ sentences on a charge of murder were increased from 10 years’ imprisonment each to 18 years on Friday.

Legal Assistance Centre (LAC) director Toni Hancox says Namibia’s parliament does not have the power to overrule the Supreme Court