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Hengari wants charges dropped
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Hengari wants charges dropped

Lawyers representing former agriculture minister Mac Albert Hengari (59) and his 30-year-old co-accused will apply today for the charges against their clients to be squashed.  Patrick Kauta is representing Hengari, while Kadhila Amoomo is for his co-accused. The co-accused cannot be identified to protect the purported victim, who is his relative.  The lawyers informed Magistrate...

Damases denies Conradie in corruption saga
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Damases denies Conradie in corruption saga

Sara Ngenohani Damases, who is accused together with prominent Windhoek lawyer Dirk Conradie of attempting to bribe advertising company DV8 Saatchi and Saatchi owners started her testimony in her defence yesterday. Conradie and Damaseb are accused of attempting to bribe Kim Fields and Mark Bongers with the lucrative MTC advertising contract, provided they took on...

Pick-axe killer gets 28 years 
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Pick-axe killer gets 28 years 

Windhoek High Court Judge Claudia Claasen last week sentenced a Khorixas resident convicted of killing his common-law wife and mother of his two children with a pickaxe to an effective jail term of 28 years.  Nawaseb was convicted on one count of breaking and entering with intent to murder and murder for breaking into the...

Plea bargaining on Namibia’s table
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Plea bargaining on Namibia’s table

Chief Justice Peter Shivute and his deputy, Petrus Damaseb, introduced the concept of plea bargaining in Namibia on Wednesday during a conference on alternative dispute resolution held in the capital. The Judiciary heavyweights hosted the conference with a delegation from Ghana, led by its Chief Justice Alfonse Ghigamoy Owiny-Dollo and accompanied by several senior judges. ...

PDM fails to evict Russian billionaire
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PDM fails to evict Russian billionaire

Windhoek High Court Judge Orben Sibeya dismissed an application by the Popular Democratic Movement to set aside the government’s decision to lease farms to a Russian billionaire, Rashid Sardarov. The decision to lease four farms to Sardarov for 99 years was taken by then land reform minister Utoni Nujoma. Since then, PDM has been pushing...

Car ‘spinner’ pleads not guilty
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Car ‘spinner’ pleads not guilty

Denzil Xavier Dawids (25), who allegedly rammed his car into a stationary vehicle and killed a female passenger on 1 October 2023 in Gobabis, pleaded not guilty to all charges on Monday.  He made the plea before Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku at the High Court situated at the Windhoek Correctional Facility. Dawids is...

Unremorseful killers each get two life sentences
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Unremorseful killers each get two life sentences

Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku sentenced two men convicted of the brutal murder and rape of an elderly couple from Koës in //Kharas region during 2 and 3 February 2018 two terms of life imprisonment. Usiku convicted Julius Arndt (47) and Andries Afrikaner (43) on two counts of murder each and of housebreaking and...

Partner killer Negodhi sent away for 23 years
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Partner killer Negodhi sent away for 23 years

Windhoek High Court Acting Judge Herman January on Tuesday sentenced convicted murderer Henock Negodhi (46) to an effective 23 years behind bars. The judge sentenced Negodhi to 28 years but conditionally suspended five years of the sentence for five years. He said the three-and-a-half years Negodhi spent in pre-trial incarceration was of no fault of...

Epako murder, rape accused pleads not guilty
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Epako murder, rape accused pleads not guilty

John Kangumbe Mutirua (23) pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder and one count of robbery with aggravating circumstances. Mutirua also pleaded not guilty to one count of defeating or attempting to defeat or obstruct the course of justice, one count of abduction (alternatively kidnapping), two counts of kidnapping,...

‘Omukwatinghonga kamana’ vati oha mono oilulu ikwete eendjebo neembele 
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‘Omukwatinghonga kamana’ vati oha mono oilulu ikwete eendjebo neembele 

WINDHOEK – Richard Kannedy Haoseb omukalimo wokolukanda Kanaan moGobabis ou ta tamanekwa oibofa yomakwatonghonga neteyo lomaumbo okwa pewa omhito komhangu yopombada opo a ningilwe omakonakono opamadilaadilo. Edi oda popiwa komupanguli komhangu yopombada yaWindhoek Dinnah Usiku, Omandaxa pefimbo Haoseb a holoka momhangu. Hahende wopaumwene Eliaser Shikwa ou akalelapo Haoseb, okwa lombwela omhangu ta ti omutamanekwa ou...