Namibia: Govt Agrees to Change Contested Research Law

The minister of education must ask Namibia’s parliament to repeal and replace several sections of the Science, Research and Technology Act that were the subject of a constitutional challenge in the High Court.

This is in terms of a settlement agreement signed by lawyers representing the Legal Assistance Centre’s Legal Assistance Trust, the company Free Press of Namibia, which is the publisher of The Namibian, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), the minister of education, the National…