Whistleblower Protection – the danger of a bad example

Whistleblower Protection – the danger of a bad example

BY FREDERICO LINKS – We’ve finally found the legal instrument from which Article 52 (1d) was copied, and it’s as bad an example as we suspected. Why do Namibian legal drafters use poorly-drafted and much-criticised laws from other countries as models for our...
Time to be awake!

Time to be awake!

The latest ruckus around land issues and growing public outrage around the general state of public sector governance are symptomatic of a public awakening The information deficits on the political landscape are becoming increasingly glaring and large sections of the...
Our ‘rededication’ to greater access and free expression

Our ‘rededication’ to greater access and free expression

We take up the message of ‘rededication’ and renew our efforts to ensure betterment where we can influence towards achieving it President Hage Geingob has anointed 2017 as ‘The Year of Rededication’, to the ideal of the ‘Namibian House’ in which no-one is supposedly...
Closing out a disconcerting 2016

Closing out a disconcerting 2016

On the whole, while there are some positives to point to, the trend discernible on the ATI And FoX landscape is rather worrying As we head towards the end of 2016 it remains clear that access to information (ATI) and freedom of expression (FoX) retain their positions...