Justice and Labour Relations Minister Wise Immanuel has notified the High Court that he will oppose an application by the Magistrates' and Judges' Association of Namibia challenging the government's role in determining magistrates' salaries, allowances and other conditions of service.
Namibia and Russia are moving towards the launch of a joint space programme, with plans that could include building and launching a satellite, training Namibian engineers and introducing space-related university programmes.
Prison authorities at the Windhoek Correctional Facility have rejected recommendations from two doctors who said a severely disabled inmate needed to be released from prison for medical care.
The Chairperson of the Council of Traditional Leaders, Immanuel |Gaseb has highlighted that for the families of Nehale and Niilenge, this is a homecoming marked by both relief and grief.
Eighty-four ancestral remains, alongside those of two former Robben Island political prisoners, Festus Nehale and Simon Niilenge, are expected to arrive at the Hosea Kutako International Airport today.
The government says the repatriation of the remains of two former political prisoners Simon Niilenge and Festus Nehale from Cape Town, South Africa, is about restoring dignity, reconnecting families with their ancestors and addressing a painful chapter in the country's liberation history.
Former Robben Island political prisoner Marten Kapewasha has returned to the prison decades after his release.
Kapewasha formed part of the delegation that witnessed the exhumation of Namibian political prisoners Simon Niilenge and Festus Nehale.
The remains of two Namibian political prisoners, who died on Robben Island, have been exhumed in Cape Town.
Festus Nehale and Simon Niilenge died while serving prison sentences during the apartheid era.
Their remains will now undergo scientific examination before being repatriated to Namibia.
It was a sombre day for the families of Namibian liberation heroes Festus Nehale and Petrus Niilenge, as they visited their graves in Cape Town ahead of the exhumation and repatriation of their remains.
The two men died while imprisoned on Robben Island.
The same dispute that led magistrates to stop work and bring courts across the country to a standstill several months back has now landed before the High Court.
