{"id":230918,"date":"2026-04-21T15:35:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-company-loses-urgent-case-about-petroleum-licence\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:35:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:35:46","slug":"namibia-company-loses-urgent-case-about-petroleum-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-company-loses-urgent-case-about-petroleum-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Company Loses &#8216;Urgent&#8217; Case About Petroleum Licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\"><em>A petroleum exploration licence holder claiming that a rival company was awarded an exploration licence after an intervention from State House has suffered a loss in an urgent application that it filed in the Windhoek High Court.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The urgent application petroleum exploration licence holder Zambezi Exploration filed five weeks ago did not meet the requirements to be heard as an urgent matter, acting judge David Mangota concluded in a judgement delivered in the Windhoek High Court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Zambezi&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604210346.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A petroleum exploration licence holder claiming that a rival company was awarded an exploration licence after an intervention from State House has suffered a loss in an urgent application that it filed in the Windhoek High Court. The urgent application petroleum exploration licence holder Zambezi Exploration filed five weeks ago did not meet the requirements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6683,7156,12476,10569,4706,724,257,5733,254,11318],"class_list":["post-230918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-case","tag-company","tag-licence","tag-loses","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-petroleum","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urgent"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}