Namibia: Speaker blocks PDM bill to recognise Baster traditional authority over procedural issues – National

THE speaker of the National Assembly has blocked a bill seeking the legal recognition of the Baster traditional authority.

Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila says Popular Democratic Movement leader McHenry Venaani’s private member’s bill fails to meet procedural requirements.

Venaani in a notice last week asked that “leave be given to introduce a private member’s bill, the recognition of the Baster traditional authority bill – 2025, to provide for the formal recognition and…