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January 2009 | Ratings Update

In a development condemned by the Media Institute of Southern Africa, state-owned newspapers New Era and The Southern Times were ordered in December to pay damages of NAD50,000 and NAD60,000 respectively to Deputy Minister Pohamba Shifeta and the Namibian branch of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God over stories that the minister and the church claimed were defamatory. Furthermore, the rulings clarified a constitutional ambiguity surrounding defamation; the judges at both hearings decided that, even if genuinely mistaken, defamation does not fall within the constitution's guarantee of freedom of speech.

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