Windhoek High Court judge Hanellie Prinsloo on Sunday ordered the release of former fisheries minister Bernhard Esau who was arrested on Saturday because the warrant of arrest was invalid. Esau had approached the High Court Sunday morning seeking an order for his release citing illegal arrest and an unlawful warrant of arrest. Prinsloo had dismissed […]

Former fisheries minister Bernhard Esau’s bid to have the Windhoek High Court order his release from custody failed Sunday when judge Hanellie Prinsloo postponed the matter to 26 Nov. Esau was arrested in Windhoek on Saturday in connection with a corruption case that involves N$150m in bribe money paid by an Icelandic fishing company, Samherji, […]

The Anti-Corruption Commission said on Saturday that there is proof that the five accused in the N$150m fishing scandal conspired to commit various crimes. In a statement signed by the ACC director general Paulus Noa, the commission said former ministers Sacky Shanghala and Bernhard Esau, James and Tamson Hatuikulipi, Ricardo Gustavo and Mike Nghipunya were […]

Police in Windhoek arrested two of the alleged kingpins on the N$150m fishing quotas scandal on Saturday in Windhoek. Those arrested are the former fisheries minister Bernhard Esau and the suspended Investec Asset Management manager Ricardo Gustavo. Still to be arrested is the former justice minister Sacky Shanghala, former Investec managing director and Fishcor board […]

The Electoral Commission of Namibia chief electoral officer Theo Mujoro told Eagle FM on Saturday that the commission will not be able to run this year’s elections if the tribunal court rules in favour of manual paper ballots. The Electoral Tribunal is expected to rule on the application made by independent presidential candidate Dr Panduleni […]

  SOME parts of Namibia were plunged into darkness on Tuesday night when power was off for about two hours. The affected areas were those at the coast, northern regions, and central Namibia. The power utility, NamPower, says it was investigating the cause of a fault that affected the current transformer on the Kokerboom-Aries 400kV […]

The Electoral Tribunal has postponed independent presidential candidate Dr Panduleni Itula’s case in which he wants the Electoral Commission of Namibia to make changes to the use of the electronic voting machines to 25 November 2019. Dr Itula gave the electoral commission an ultimatum about a week ago demanding that if the electronic voting machines […]

President Hage Geingob has dismissed a news report in the state-owned New Era publication that said he had denounced demands for the dismissals of former ministers Sacky Shanghala and Bernhard Esau. The ministers, who are being investigated by the ACC for involvement in the N$150m fishing bribe from an Iceland company, resigned 13 November 2019. […]

  State House has dismissed reports that President Hage Geingob’s motorcade was blocked at Ondangwa on Saturday. Some media reports said that Geingob was stuck in the traffic after Dr Itula In a press statement Monday, the presidential press secretary Alfredo Hengari said that the media that reported about the blockade was misinforming the nation. […]

The environment ministry says 15 people were arrested between 11 and 17 November, while 10 new cases were reported during the same period. In a statement Monday, environment ministry spokesperson Romeo Muyunda said that two of the suspects were arrested for in connection with rhino poaching/trafficking cases (including cases of the conspiracy of rhino poaching). Four […]