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Recusal has become a political football in a number of African jurisdictions during the past months, but Namibia has produced a completely new scenario: magistrates who refuse to continue a case because of a workplace grievance, and recuse themselves in protest.
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At 77 pages, the Supreme Court’s decision on the status of the two Swazi industrial courts has to be one of the longest ever produced in that country.
Five Supreme Court judges wrestled with the complexities but in the end it was authored by Judge “M J” Majahenkhaba Dlamini with the concurrence of the others.
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When Malawi was gripped by a maize shortage scare a few years ago the government arranged to buy more from Zambia. But allegations of corruption soon followed against George Chaponda, then minister responsible for agriculture, as well as other officials in Malawi and in Zambia.
So great was the public outcry that a presidential commission of inquiry was established to investigate.
