On this date, 3 August, we commemorate Hage Geingob’s 85th birthday, his second since his death. As chairperson of Namibia’s Constituent Assembly, Geingob played a key role in the birth of our internationally lauded constitutionalism. He is, therefore, the chief…

Lord Alfred Denning, a legendary English judge, speaking in 1967 on reform to the law of divorce, stated: “We should do everything of course to maintain the marriage if we can, but if it be irretrievably broken down, let the…

When sharply criticising an unnecessary arrest in a corruption case, judge president Petrus Damaseb stated: “(I)t is incumbent upon an arresting officer to apply his or her mind to the question whether arrest, given its gravity, is the most appropriate…