{"id":248723,"date":"2026-10-31T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-court-dismisses-entrepos-bid-for-opinion\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T12:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T10:00:17","slug":"namibia-court-dismisses-entrepos-bid-for-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-court-dismisses-entrepos-bid-for-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Court Dismisses Entrepo&#8217;s Bid for Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">ECWindhoek High Court Judge Thomas Masuku has dismissed an application in which Entrepo Finance sought to compel the Ministry of Finance to disclose a legal opinion prepared by the attorney general concerning the Payroll Deduction Management System (PDMS).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The microlending entity lodged the interlocutory application to compel discovery in June this year, alongside its main application.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The entity contended that it was entitled to obtain the AG&#8217;s legal opinion on the legality of the PDMS, arguing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610280743.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>ECWindhoek High Court Judge Thomas Masuku has dismissed an application in which Entrepo Finance sought to compel the Ministry of Finance to disclose a legal opinion prepared by the attorney general concerning the Payroll Deduction Management System (PDMS). The microlending entity lodged the interlocutory application to compel discovery in June this year, alongside its main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":248724,"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":[258,256,10798,6185,12843,55747,4706,724,257,12275,254],"class_list":["post-248723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bid","tag-court","tag-dismisses","tag-entrepos","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-opinion","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/248723","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=248723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}