{"id":238988,"date":"2026-07-18T19:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-fishrot-trial-postponed-to-october\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T19:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:07:07","slug":"namibia-fishrot-trial-postponed-to-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-fishrot-trial-postponed-to-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Fishrot Trial Postponed to October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>The Fishrot fraud, corruption and racketeering case about the alleged unlawful allocation and use of Namibian fishing quotas has been postponed to 19 October.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Acting judge Marilize du Plessis postponed the case at the end of an appearance by the 10 individuals charged in the matter in the High Court at Windhoek Correctional Facility yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">One of the accused, former attorney general and minister of justice Sacky Shanghala, informed Du Plessis that a decision has not been made yet on a petition&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607170689.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>The Fishrot fraud, corruption and racketeering case about the alleged unlawful allocation and use of Namibian fishing quotas has been postponed to 19 October. Acting judge Marilize du Plessis postponed the case at the end of an appearance by the 10 individuals charged in the matter in the High Court at Windhoek Correctional Facility yesterday. [&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":[258,256,31744,4706,724,257,11113,7397,254,6564],"class_list":["post-238988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fishrot","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-october","tag-postponed","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238988","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=238988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238988\/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=238988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}