Justice on Hold: Four Areas Where the Law Needs Updating

Justice on Hold: Four Areas Where the Law Needs Updating

Justice minister wise Immanuel’s recent call for public suggestions on legislative reform is a rare and welcome invitation that enhances participatory democracy.  What the public lacks in legal tutoring, they make up for in grounded, urgent insight into laws that are unfit for purpose.   In a country as deeply unequal as Namibia, law reform isn’t an academic exercise, it’s a matter of lived reality and national conscience. From the continued exp…