Lawyer Nate Ndauendapo has been appointed as an Acting Judge of the High Court from January 17 to the end of March, it was announced from the office of Chief Justice Peter Shivute last week.

Ndauendapo also served as an Acting Judge of the High Court from mid-September to the end of November 2006.

Also appointed by the President as an Acting Judge of the High Court on the recommendation of the Judicial Service Commission is lawyer Hosea Angula, who has completed several stints as an Acting Judge since first being appointed to that position in 1996.

Angula is set to sit as an Acting Judge on the High Court bench from January 17 to the end of April.

Veteran Judge John Manyarara will also be staying on at the High Court, after he was reappointed as an Acting Judge with effect from the beginning of March this year to the end of March next year, it was announced.

Acting Judge Manyarara, who has served as an Acting Judge of the High Court in Namibia since mid-June 2000, has previously served as a Judge of the High Court of Zimbabwe and as a Judge of Appeal of that country's Supreme Court.

A fellow former Zimbabwe High Court Judge, Simpson Mtambanengwe, who retired from his post as a High Court Judge in Namibia at the end of 2006, is set to return to active duty as an Acting Judge of Appeal in Namibia's Supreme Court, it was announced further.

Mtambanengwe, who also served as Acting Chief Justice of Namibia for four months in 2003 and again for a two-month period in late 2004, has been appointed as an Acting Judge of Appeal from the beginning of January to the end of the year.

Another long-serving member of the High Court bench, Acting Judge Annel Silungwe, who is also a former Chief Justice of Zambia, is set to remain on the High Court bench from the beginning of February to the end of March next year.

Rounding out the latest batch of judicial appointments to have been made by the President, is Otjiwarongo-based Regional Court Magistrate Christie Liebenberg, who is set to return to the High Court as an Acting Judge for the third year running.

Liebenberg is scheduled to be at the High Court as an Acting Judge for the month of February.

He served in the same position late last year and in the latter half of 2006 as well.

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