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A report released by the chairperson of the disciplinary committee for lawyers, Jermaine Muchali, has revealed that 63 complaints were against lawyers by September this year. The report states that 44 complaints were received for the 2023 financial year and 19 this year. Of these, 52 were fined and/or reprimanded, one was struck from the...
Windhoek High Court Judge Thomas Masuku dismissed an application by Windhoek-based lawyers, Dirk Conradie, and Sara Damases to be acquitted from the corruption charges in terms of Section 174 application. Judge Masuku earlier this week found that the State produced enough prima facie evidence to put the accused on their defence on charges of fraud....
Former head of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s army Francois Tete Olenga is fighting tooth and nail to have more than N$10 million forfeited to the Namibian government returned. The Bank of Namibia (BoN), on instructions from the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC), declared the money forfeited to the State because of the “uncertain origin.” Olenga,...
The Department of Legal Aid in the Ministry of Justice has refused to pay a psychiatrist to testify in a murder trial involving one of his patients. Similarly, the ministry also declined to foot the bill of N$43 000 Dr Reinhardt Sieberhagen is charging to testify in the murder trial of former teacher Patrick Geingob,...
High Court Judge Orben Sibeya, dismissed the application with costs on a party-to-party basis in which Tjitemisa and Associates sought to avoid paying a former employee her dues. Gelia Etty Nyandoro, a Zimbabwean national, was employed at Tjitemisa and Associates from 22 January 2014 to 31 August 2021. After her departure, the firm petitioned the...
Yene ili mupokola nalengilwe lilimo zemashumi amabeli kazeketalizoho ki Khuta ye Pahami ya Windoko viki yefelile, kakubitelela mwana hae wakuipepela yanana ni lilimo zelishumi kazeketalizoho. Claudia Claasen nalengile muuna walilimo ze 54, yasa konwi kutungululwa kabaka la kubukeleza siezwa, lilimo zelishumi kazelobapeli za kubitelela, ni zesupile zakufosa ni membala walubasi. Claasen natolokile kezo ya kubitelela...
A former police officer was sentenced to an effective 25-year imprisonment term by the Windhoek High Court yesterday for raping his then 15-year-old biological daughter. Judge Claudia Claasen sentenced the 54-year-old man, who may not be identified to protect the identity of the victim, to 18 years’ imprisonment on the rape conviction and seven years...
A former police officer who was convicted of raping his biological daughter, impregnating her, and then forcing her to abort the pregnancy was sentenced to an effective 25-year jail term today by Windhoek High Court Judge Claudia Claasen. The man, who may not be identified to protect the identity of the victim was sentenced to...
State Advocate Ed Marondedze yesterday applied to acting Windhoek High Court judge Moses Chinhengo to stay the main trial and any further applications by former attorney general and justice minister Edward Sakeus Shanghala until the finalisation of his constitutionality challenge on the judge’s appointment. Shanghala petitioned the Supreme Court after Chinhengo dismissed his application to...
The alleged killers of renowned stock theft investigator Hiambepo ‘Major’ Kazeurua are in for another long wait for the finalisation of their trial. The matter, which was supposed to start in 2014, was plagued by postponements because of recusal applications, the withdrawal of lawyers and bail applications. This time, it is the unavailability of the...