SEPARATING MOVEMENT FROM POLITICS … Affirmative Repositioning (AR) leader Job Amupanda on Thursday said the party has a movement component and a political component. This means it does not focus on elections alone, but also on economical issues and activism. Amupanda said this at the party’s press briefing on its five months in parliament on Thursday. Video: Martin Endjala | The Namibian

NEWS UPDATE: The bail hearing of former fisheries minister Bernhard Esau and his son-in-law Tamson Hatuikulipi, who were arrested on corruption, fraud and money laundering charges in November last year, is continuing in the Windhoek Magistrate's Court today. The day's hearing started with defence lawyer Richard Metcalfe reading out an affidavit in which Hatuikulipi sets out the grounds why he says he should be granted bail. An Anti-Corruption Commission investigator is also expected to testify i

TARGETING CHARGES ... Former minister of agriculture, fisheries, water and land reform Mac Hengari and a co-accused are again appearing in the Windhoek Magistrate's Court on Thursday. With their previous court appearance, defence lawyer Patrik Kauta announced he will be asking for the charges against Hengari to be quashed, or thrown out, by the court. Video: Werner Menges | The Namibian