Iuze Mukube The alleged murderer of 27-year-old Delia Weimers-Maasdorp, who was found dead in her flat in the Eros suburb of Windhoek on 25 April last year, will remain in custody, pending the finalisation of his trial. Magistrate Monica Andjaba delivered this ruling on 7 February 2025, dismissing Wentzel Maasdorp’s application in which he sought...
Prosecutor General Martha Imalwa has filed an application for leave to appeal the acquittal on appeal, of student doctor and rape accused Dennis Iipumbu Noa (30). The application was filed in the High Court last week by State Advocate Palmer Khumalo against the verdict of not guilty given by High Court judges Herman January and...
Uakutura Kambaekua OPUWO – The death of Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s first democratically elected president, signifies the end of an era, marking the loss of a key figure from the generation of African liberation struggle leaders. Nujoma was the last surviving revolutionary leader from SADC, a class that included Botswana’s Seretse Khama, South Africa’s Nelson Mandela,...
Isabel Bento SWAKOPMUND – “He once gave up his room for me while he went to spend the night at his mother’s house, then returned the next morning with a helicopter to fetch me. He was my chommie.” ‘Chommie’, an informal term for friend, was how 89-year-old José Luis Bastos described Founding President Sam Nujoma,...
THITANGADIMBA – Hambukushu traditional leader Fumu Erwin Munika Mbambo (85) sang praises of late Founding Father Sam Nujoma, reminiscing on Nujoma’s days as his commander at the frontline. Mbambo urged the youth to honour Nujoma for liberating Namibia and ensuring that there was peace after independence. “Young people should follow the footsteps of Sam Nujoma...
NAKABOLELWA- Farmers in Zambezi region joined the rest of Namibia in remembering late Founding President Sam Nujoma, who died on 8 February at the age of 95. One such farmer, George Kasale from Ivilivinzi village, who is Swapo district coordinator for Kabbe South, described Nujoma as a freedom fighter. “I remember the Founding President as...
Andreas Thomas Namibia’s founding president Sam Nujoma may be gone, but his legacy endures in the hearts and minds of Namibians and people around the world. The nonagenarian statesman died at the age of 95 in a hospital in Windhoek on Saturday, 8 February 2025. Since his passing, people have continued to relate memories and...
BUKAVU – M23 fighters and Rwandan troops entered the DR Congo provincial capital of Bukavu on Friday, security and humanitarian sources said.The fighters and their Rwandan allies entered the eastern city of around one-million people, the capital of South Kivu province, meeting virtually no resistance after having seized the region’s main airport, the sources said....
PORT LOUIS – Police in Mauritius yesterday arrested the island’s former prime minister Pravind Jugnauth in a money-laundering probe and seized stacks of cash in raids on fellow suspects’ homes, officials said. Officers detained the 63-year-old along with his wife Kobita Jugnauth on Saturday and questioned them for several hours, police sources who asked not...
TUNIS – Engineer-turned-social entrepreneur Sabri Cheriha hunches over a washing machine at a small depot in a suburb of Tunisia’s capital, the unassuming home of a start-up he launched to tackle the country’s mounting electronic waste problem.Cheriha said there were currently about eight million household appliances and nine million cellphones in use across Tunisia, but...