NAMIBIA LAW JOURNAL ARTICLES The right to be given reasons as part of a fair administrative procedure: A comparative study of Namibian, South African and German law Cornelia Glinz Jurisprudential aspects of proclaiming towns in communal areas in Namibia Clever Mapaure Confronting grand corruption in the public and private sector: spirited new initiative from Tanzania Chris Maina Peter and Juliana Masabo JUDGMENT NOTES RECENT CASES OTHER NOTES AND COMMENTS NEW LEGISLATION BOOK REVIEWS LEGAL PRACTITIONERS Volume 01 - Issue 02 JULY - DECEMBER 2009 NAMIBIA LAW JOURNAL Trustees of the Namibia Law Journal Trust Chairperson Honourable Justice JDG Maritz Judge of the Supreme Court of Namibia Prof. Nico Horn Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Namibia Mr Karel Danhauser Council Member of the Law Society of Namibia, Legal Practitioner of the High Court of Namibia Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Prof. Nico Horn Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Namibia Editors Adv. Esi Shimming-Chase President of the Law Society of Namibia Legal Practitioner of the High Court of Namibia Prof. Manfred Hinz UNESCO Professor of Human Rights and Democracy, Professor of Law, University of Namibia Adv. Raymond Heathcote Legal Practitioner of the High Court of Namibia Adv. Tousy Namiseb Chief of Law Reform, Secretary to the Law Reform and Development Commission Legal Practitioner of the High Court of Namibia Ms Isabella Skeffers Programme Officer and Researcher, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Namibia Advisory Board Honourable Justice GJC Strydom Retired Chief Justice of the Republic of Namibia and Acting Judge of the Supreme Court of Namibia Honourable Justice J van der Westhuizen Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa Prof. Pamela J Schwikkard Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town Prof. Chris Maina Peter Professor of Law, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Prof. Barbara Olshansky Human rights lawyer, and Professor of Law Prof. Christian Roschmann Harz University of Applied Sciences, Germany Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Director of the Rule of Law Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa Prof. Gerhard Erasmus Emeritus Professor University of Stellenbosch, tralac Associate Adv. Dave Smuts Legal Practitioner of the Republic of Namibia Namibia Law Journal i This publication would not have been possible without the generous financial support of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Please note that the views expressed herein are not necessarily those of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. This publication is also available online at www.kas.de/namibia and www.namibialawjournal.org Konrad Adenauer Foundation PO Box 1145 Windhoek Tel.: (+264 61) 225 568 [email protected] www.kas.de/namibia Namibia Law Journal, Volume 01, Issue 02, 2009 ISSN: 2072-6678 © Namibia Law Journal Trust All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. 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Box 27146 Windhoek Namibia Tel: (+ 264 61) 206 3622 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.namibialawjournal.org ii Volume 1 Issue 2 July 2009 CONTENTS GUIDE TO CONTRIBUTORS ....................................................iii INTRODUCTION .......................................................................1 Nico Horn ARTICLES .................................................................................3 The right to be given reasons as part of a fair administrative procedure: A comparative study of Namibian, South African and German law ............... 3 Cornelia Glinz Jurisprudential aspects of proclaiming towns in communal areas in Namibia.................................................................................................... 23 Clever Mapaure Confronting grand corruption in the public and private sector: A spirited new initiative from Tanzania ........................................................................ 49 Chris Maina Peter and Juliana Masabo JUDGMENT NOTES ...............................................................73 S v Teek: A critical review and analysis ....................................................... 73 Kaijata Kangueehi The banning of labour hire in Namibia: How realistic is it? .......................... 87 Fritz Nghiishililwa Matheus Hepute v The Minister of Mines and Energy & Northbank Diamonds (Pty) Ltd ...................................................................................... 95 Reinhard Tötemeyer RECENT CASES ...................................................................103 Mathews Kristof Shikongo v Trustco Group International Limited & Others; Case No. [P] I 3625/2006, High Court of Namibia, 29 January 2009........................................................................................................... 103 Karin Klazen OTHER NOTES AND COMMENTS ......................................109 Phase 1 of the Namibian Ascertainment of Customary Law Project to be completed soon ................................................................................ 109 Manfred O Hinz NEW LEGISLATION ..............................................................121 The Children’s Status Act, 2006 (No. 6 of 2006) ....................................... 121 Tousy Namiseb BOOK REVIEWS...................................................................125 Human rights in Africa: Legal perspectives on their protection and promotion; Anton Bösl & Joseph Diescho (Eds), Windhoek, Macmillan Education Namibia, 2009, 408 pages ...................................... 125 Onkemetse Tshosa Judicial independence: Eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung der Sicherung unabhängiger Rechtsprechung in Südafrika und Deutschland, Hilke Thiedemann, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden Baden, 2007, 469 pp ...................................................................... 131 Oliver C Ruppel An introduction to Namibian law: Materials and cases, SK Amoo, Macmillan Education Namibia, Windhoek, 2009, 482 pp .......................... 135 Steve Gray LEGAL PRACTITIONERS .....................................................139 Namibia Law Journal i ii Volume 1 Issue 2 July 2009 GUIDE TO CONTRIBUTORS The Namibia Law Journal (NLJ) is a joint project of the Supreme Court of Namibia, the Law Society of Namibia and the University of Namibia. The Editorial Board will accept articles and notes dealing with or relevant to Namibian law. The discussion of Namibian legislation and case law are dealt with as priorities. Submissions can be made by E-mail to [email protected] in the form of a file attachment in MS Word. Although not preferred, the editors will also accept typed copies mailed to PO Box 27146, Windhoek, Namibia. All submissions will be reviewed by one of the Advisory Board members or an expert in the field of the paper. Submissions for the January 2010 edition need to reach the editors by 15 September 2009. Contributions with a constitutional theme are encouraged for the next edition. All submissions need to comply with the following requirements: • Submissions are to be in English. • Only original, unpublished articles and notes are usually accepted by the Editorial Board. If a contributor wishes to submit an article that has been published elsewhere, s/he should acknowledge such prior publication in the submission. The article should be accompanied by a letter stating that the author has copyright of the article. • By submitting an article for publication, the author transfers copyright of the submission to the Namibia Law Journal Trust. • Articles should be between 4,000 and 10,000 words, including footnotes. • “Judgment Notes” contain discussions of recent cases, not merely summaries of them. Submissions in this category should not exceed 10,000 words. • Shorter notes, i.e. not longer than 4,000 words, can be submitted for publication in the “Other Notes and Comments” section. • Summaries of recent cases (not longer than 4,000 words) are published in the relevant section. • Reviews of Namibian or southern African legal books should not exceed 3,000 words. The NLJ style sheet can be obtained from the Editor-in-Chief at [email protected] or on the website <http://www. namibialawjournal.org/>. Namibia Law Journal iii iv Volume 1 Issue 2 July 2009 INTRODUCTION Nico Horn* This second edition of the Namibia Law Journal is loaded with interesting and relevant articles and notes. For example, Cornelia Glinz, a doctoral student of one of our editors, Prof. Manfred Hinz, takes the issue of administrative law dealt with in the previous issue a step further with her comparison between administrative law in Namibia, South Africa and Germany. Ms Glinz is no stranger to Namibia. She spent the major part of 2008 in Windhoek as an intern with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. She is presently attached to the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, one of Namibia’s partners in developing a home-grown Namibian administrative law. Clever Mapaure, a University of Namibia LLM student and LLB graduate (cum laude), writes on the controversial issue of town proclamations in areas subject to traditional law, while Prof. Chris Peter and Juliana Masabo of the University of Dar es Salaam warn against policies that hide government