The Keetmanshoop mayor, Francis Swartbooi, has requested the local Magistrates' Court to disregard as inadmissible the evidence in a drunk-driving case against her.

Questions have been raised over how legal aid lawyers are paid in one of the country's biggest corruption trials.

    
Allegations of unequal pay, unpaid legal work and special incentives for some have rocked the Ministry of Justice, as the Fishrot matter returns to court on Monday.

State Advocate Lilungwe Basson, this morning, told the Windhoek High Court that the State is not ready to proceed with the appeal of the bail application by Peter and Malakia Elindi and former Namcor executives Immanuel Mulunga, Jennifer Hamukwaya, Olivia Dunaiski, and Leo Nandago.

Steven Schneiders told the court that he attempted to take his own life after learning that his girlfriend and co-accused, Naomi Fisch, had suffered a miscarriage.

Court proceedings across the country came to a standstill on Wednesday morning, as magistrates began a strike, leaving accused persons, lawyers, and prosecutors waiting in courtrooms with no presiding officers.

The Pretoria High Court has adjourned to Monday, the 18th of August, for the hearing of the leave appeal by the Lungu family.

This was the shortest of all the court sessions in the Edgar Lungu burial impasse between the Zambian government and the Lungu family.

A bail application for several of the eight individuals accused in the high-profile Namcor multi-million dollar corruption case is set to be heard in the Windhoek Magistrates' Court on Monday.

Of late, Namibians have witnessed an increase in the number of requests for judges to recuse themselves from certain cases. But what exactly is recusal, and why are these applications gaining traction?