2021-10-01Maria Sheya Six officials from the Gobabis municipality who were recently suspended from the local authority for alleged misconduct, claim their suspension was a concerted and calculated campaign of tribal victimisation and harassment. View more
2021-10-01Maria Sheya The police are still busy investigating a case involving medical intern Dennis Noa who is accused of sexually violating an incapacitated patient at the Katutura Intermediate Hospital in April. View more
2021-10-05Maria Sheya A man who claims to have been severely assaulted by police officers to the extent of defecating, will hear the court’s verdict on his N$900 000 suit in November. View more
2021-10-05Maria Sheya Swapo backbencher Tobie Aupindi had a stroke of luck when he and businessman Antonio di Savino’s appeal against their conviction and sentence succeeded yesterday in the High Court. View more
2021-10-06Maria Sheya Two of the three men who were arrested for allegedly breaking into the Katutura Magistrate’s Court in July have been released on bail. View more
2021-10-06Maria Sheya A Windhoek resident who was convicted and sentenced to 27 years imprisonment for kidnapping and raping a 23-year-old woman, is appealing his conviction and sentence in the High Court. View more
2021-10-07Maria Sheya High Court Judge Christie Liebenberg concluded yesterday the State has managed to prove former Cabinet ministers and businessmen in the fisheries bribery case, all acted with the same purpose for the benefit of their “criminal enterprise”. View more
2021-10-07Maria Sheya Rapid land delivery, proper governance, an effective debt collection plan as well as containing the skyrocketing wage bill were some of the strategies highlighted by City of Windhoek CEO candidates during their public presentations yesterday. View more
2021-10-08Maria Sheya The High Court has been asked to decide if the designation of Hendrik Ismael Witbooi as chief of the Witbooi Traditional Authority by government was legal. View more
2021-10-11Maria Sheya Commissioner of refugees Likius Valombola will have to wait for three more weeks to hear the court’s ruling in his murder case. High Court Judge Claudia Claasen was initially scheduled to give the court’s ruling on Friday, but said it was not ready. View more
2021-10-11Maria Sheya An attempt by a murder convict to appeal his 20-year sentence in the Supreme Court was shot down by the High Court on Friday. High Court Judge Eileen Rakow dismissed the application by Jan Moses Uamunika (50) for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court. View more
2021-10-11Maria Sheya The Landless People’s Movement (LPM) said it is preparing to file for the rescission of a recent court order which compelled the party to reinstate two of its Mariental local authority councillors, who were recalled in February this year. View more
2021-10-13Maria Sheya A South African national who was convicted on multiple charges of fraud but had filed a N$5 million lawsuit against the State for alleged malicious and wrongful prosecution, was deported to his homeland. View more
2021-10-14Maria Sheya Minister of Information and Communication Technology Peya Mushelenga said Germany should guard against selective justice and discrimination towards genocide victims. Speaking in parliament on Tuesday, Mushelenga said he supports defence minister Frans Kapofi’s notion of having government work hard in securing an improved and acceptable reparations quantum. View more
2021-10-15Maria Sheya As defamation cases are on the rise, members of the public opt to sue media houses instead of going for the cost-effective and faster self-regulation mechanism. However, self-regulation is in peril as the very members who subscribe to it don’t sustain it. View more
2021-10-15Maria Sheya The ministry of safety and security and the commissioner general of the Namibia Correctional Services have denied negligence or having failed to keep an inmate safe who is suing them for N$35 million for losing his eyesight. View more
2021-10-15Maria Sheya Newly appointed Ombudsman Basilius Dyakugha sat down with New Era’s journalist Maria Amakali to shed light on his journey and plans for his new role. View more
2021-10-18Maria Sheya The Katutura Magistrate’s Court last week struck the case of a man accused of killing and setting alight his live-in girlfriend two years ago in Katutura, Windhoek from the court roll. View more
2021-10-18Maria Sheya A woman, who was on trial for conspiring with several men to kill her husband, was convicted for his death on Friday by the High Court. View more
2021-10-19Maria Sheya A Windhoek resident, who was serving a 10-year sentence for allegedly sexually violating his niece’s friend, was successful with his appeal bid in the High Court. View more
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