{"id":238059,"date":"2026-07-03T18:28:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-fishrot-accuseds-review-application-unprecedented\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T18:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:28:46","slug":"namibia-fishrot-accuseds-review-application-unprecedented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-fishrot-accuseds-review-application-unprecedented\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Fishrot Accused&#8217;s Review Application Unprecedented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">An application by four Fishrot corruption and fraud accused in which they seek to restrain and stop the government from continuing to prosecute them, has been said to be unprecedented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">According to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and other government respondents brought to court, what the applicants are asking for has never really been done before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The said application was lodged by former justice minister Sacky Shanghala and his three co-accused, James Hatuikulipi, Pius Mwatelulo, and Otneel&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607030406.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>An application by four Fishrot corruption and fraud accused in which they seek to restrain and stop the government from continuing to prosecute them, has been said to be unprecedented. According to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and other government respondents brought to court, what the applicants are asking for has never really been done before. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[12921,258,256,11814,31744,4706,724,257,6399,254,14978],"class_list":["post-238059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-accuseds","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-application","tag-fishrot","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-review","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unprecedented"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238059","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=238059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}