Gendev Fishing faces court battle over N$3.1m undelivered fish shipment

In the waters off Namibia's commercial fishing industry, a company part-owned by the ruling party finds itself caught between a buyer left empty-handed, a presidential investigation into vanishing funds, and workers pressed to accept terms under threat. Gendev Fishing Group's failure to deliver N$3.1 million in horse mackerel — paid for in full and never received — has drawn it before the High Court, where silence has been its only consistent response. The case is less a story of a single broken contract than a portrait of institutional unraveling, where financial accountability, labor dignity