The Walvis Bay Magistrates' Court needs an infrastructural boost, as it lacks sufficient office and storage space.

Court officials informed parliamentarians that there have been delays in the renovation of a building, which ought to provide relief.

Members of Parliament visited capital projects under the Ministry of Justice and Office of the Judiciary at Walvis Bay.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs wanted to observe the progress made on the renovation project of the lower court between 2018 and 2021.

A group of farmers from Okakarara Constituency is demanding that the Magistrate's Court stop granting bail to stock theft suspects.

The farmers, under the banner of the Okakarara Residents Association Fighting for Development, claim repeat offenders set free on bail continue with the same criminal activities.

The fed-up farmers held a demonstration on Monday in front of the Okakarara Magistrate's Court, where the spokesperson, Mbimbi Kambaekua, said they are losing livestock to rustlers every other week.

A resident of Gainachas settlement in the ||Kharas Region who stands accused of setting alight a woman in a rage of jealousy made a brief appearance on a murder charge in the Keetmanshoop Magistrates' Court today.

38-year-old Isabella Eises was not asked to plead.

It is alleged that the accused poured petrol on Linda De Wee, whom she suspected was in a love relationship with her husband, before setting her alight on Sunday at the settlement.

De Wee succumbed to the 60% burn wounds, she sustained, on Monday.