The Windhoek High Court has revoked the national documents of a man who was born 22 years ago at the Otjiwarango State Hospital.

High Court Judge Boas Usiku has dismissed with costs an application in which a 22-year-old man born in Namibia to Burundian refugee parents wanted the court to order the Minister of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety, and Security to grant him a Namibian passport.

Russell Kwizera’s parents entered Namibia in 2000 and applied for refugee status; at the time of their son’s birth in 2002, they had not yet acquired refugee status.

Judge Ramon Maasdorp has postponed the judgement in the case of Xinfeng Investment - a Chinese lithium miner whose mining license was revoked by the Ministry of Mines and Energy.  

The judgment has been set for next week Friday.

The Ministry of Mines and Energy's Acting Executive Director, Bryan Eiseb explained that they had revoked the license after Xinfeng was found to have deliberately filed incorrect information during the application process and that the company failed to adequately explain the misleading information.