Steven Schneiders told the court that he attempted to take his own life after learning that his girlfriend and co-accused, Naomi Fisch, had suffered a miscarriage.

Court proceedings across the country came to a standstill on Wednesday morning, as magistrates began a strike, leaving accused persons, lawyers, and prosecutors waiting in courtrooms with no presiding officers.

The Pretoria High Court has adjourned to Monday, the 18th of August, for the hearing of the leave appeal by the Lungu family.

This was the shortest of all the court sessions in the Edgar Lungu burial impasse between the Zambian government and the Lungu family.

A bail application for several of the eight individuals accused in the high-profile Namcor multi-million dollar corruption case is set to be heard in the Windhoek Magistrates' Court on Monday.

Of late, Namibians have witnessed an increase in the number of requests for judges to recuse themselves from certain cases. But what exactly is recusal, and why are these applications gaining traction?