Windhoek
The Magistrates Commission on Friday scored a significant victory when it obtained an interdict against suspended wayward magistrate Hileni Kavara, who has been posting sensitive judiciary matters on her Facebook page.
But in true Kavara style, she immediately defied the court order by posting the verdict on Facebook, accompanied by derogatory remarks.
Kavara was served with an urgent court order to remove “any and all defamatory material related to the Magistrates Commission from your Facebook.com account and are interdicted from further publishing any and all defamatory material related to the Magistrates Commission on your Facebook.com account or anywhere else” – according to a letter issued by human rights lawyer Norman Tjombe.
Tjombe, of Tjombe-Elago Inc, is representing the Magistrates Commission.
The letter further states that the order was issued in the form of a rule nisi (court order that does not have any force unless a particular condition is met) and was made to be effective immediately.
“The court also ordered that you should show cause, if any, why the orders should not be made final on Friday 8 April 2016 at 10h00,” reads the letter signed by Tjombe.
The letter further states: “Further we hold instructions to pursue legal proceedings to hold you in contempt of the court order should you not immediately comply with the said court order. We urge you to take the matter seriously.”
In defiance, Kavara posted the letter on Facebook and said that she will continue to post whatever she wants, as long as she is Namibian under whose constitution she is allowed to express her views.
“It’s my democratic and constitutional right. Last I checked, I buy my own data,” she said, while referring to Tjombe as a f***t.
Kavara’s ex-fiancé and father of her child, Mahammed Shabani, was nabbed for possession of cannabis valued at N$200 000 last year.
Shabani has been a fugitive since late last year when he missed a court appearance. He was out on N$50 000 bail that Kavara paid. It is also said that it was the bail money that got Kavara suspended when she tried to have the court return the money to her instead of the money being forfeited to the state.
Kavara, who has of late been the subject of media reports, has since taken to Facebook to reveal alleged corruption related to, among others, Prosecutor General Martha Imalwa.