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Iuze Mukube The Supreme Court has determined that the extension of the 2024 November elections was lawful and in the best interest of the public. Chief Justice Shivute rendered this decision on Friday, saying that Proclamation 34 of 2024, which established the extension period, guaranteed that all eligible voters had the opportunity to exercise their...
Lahja Nashuuta The Supreme Court will deliver the long-awaited ruling on the validity of Namibia’s 2024 Presidential election today. The court will pronounce judgement on two cases submitted by the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) on 23 December 2024. The IPC seeks to have the Presidential election declared invalid, overturning the victory of the Swapo...
Iuze Mukube The Landless People’s Movement (LPM) has become a co-applicant with the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) in their fight to have the results of November 2024 National Assembly elections set aside. This was granted by the Electoral Court yesterday, headed by Judge Hannelie Prinsloo and assisted by judges Orben Sibeya and Esi Schimming-Chase....
As parties in the election challenge matter currently before the Supreme Court await judgement set for 28 February, New Era’s Roland Routh summarises the major occurrences during the proceedings. Panduleni Itula, the president of the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), brought a challenge to the presidential election held on 27 November last year, based on...
Three judges of the Electoral Court yesterday ordered that the challenge on the results of the National Assembly elections held last November be put on hold until the apex court decides on a similar matter. The Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) brought the two applications – one against the outcome of the National Assembly elections...
ONGWEDIVA – The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) is ready to pull today’s by-election in the Guinas constituency of the Oshikoto region. The readiness was revealed by De Wet Siluka, the Commission’s spokesperson, in an interview with this publication. According to Siluka, all polling stations have been provided with the necessary equipment and sufficient personnel...
Roland Routh Iuze Mukube Raymond Heathcote, President Nangolo Mbumba’s legal representative, lyrically quoted former British prime minister Winston Churchill when he argued against a stay application in the Electoral Court yesterday. Clearly in his element, Heathcote told the court that the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), who argued in favour of the stay application initiated...
Uakutura Kambaekua OPUWO – With only two months until the swearing-in of National Assembly members following the pivotal elections in November 2024, the United Democratic Front (UDF) has yet to determine its parliamentary representatives for this term. The party secured two seats in last year’s elections, amassing 16 828 votes in the National Assembly race....
ONGWEDIVA – Two members of the same family – albeit from different political backgrounds – will go head-to-head later this month in the by-election for a regional councillor position in the Oshikoto region. The Landless People’s Movement’s (LPM) Fransiskus Khumub and his older cousin, Swapo Party’s Moses Khumub, are the only two candidates to contest...
On Friday, 13 December 2024, the Electoral Court ordered the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) to grant the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) and the Landless People’s Movement (LPM) access to specific statistical electoral data pertaining to the recentl-held National Assembly (NA) election. This case raises several curious questions. For brevity, only two issues are...