Court Saves Namibian Refugees

When the deadline for them to leave Botswana approached, the refugees, led by Felix Kakula, filed an urgent application seeking an interim order preventing the government from sending them away.

Delivering judgement, Justice Dube said the refugees arrived in Botswana during various dates between 1998 and 2002 fleeing the Namibian security forces who had in that period conducted searches in the Caprivi Strip (now Zambezi region) following reports of uprising and paramilitary activity by people known as the Caprivi African National Union (CANU).