2020-08-03Roland Routh Three young men from Gobabis, who are accused of taking turns to rape a woman at a local settlement on 6 March 2016, will hear their fate on 16 October after Windhoek High Court Judge Naomi Shivute heard arguments on the verdict on Friday. View more
2020-08-04Roland Routh The trial of a Congolese national accused of smuggling at least 15 refugees into Namibia for a fee was remanded to 1 December after Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku was informed that she was ill and as a result could not attend court proceedings. View more
2020-08-04Roland Routh A farmworker from Post Houtputz in the Otjombinde area near Tallismanus in the Gobabis district yesterday pleaded guilty to murder with direct intent for slitting the throat of his girlfriend and mother of his child on 4 September 2018. View more
2020-08-05Roland Routh The trial of a man who allegedly fatally slit the throat of his live-in girlfriend with a kitchen knife was stopped in its tracks because several witnesses are not allowed to travel from the epicentre of Covid-19 in Walvis Bay as a preventive measure. View more
2020-08-07Roland Routh An Angolan accused of dealing in rhino horns lost his appeal against a ruling by a Windhoek magistrate that deprived him of bail when High Court Judge Christi Liebenberg upheld the initial decision by the magistrate. View more
2020-08-25Roland Routh In an urgent application filed at the High Court, the company is asking Deputy Judge President Hosea Angula to interdict the fisheries ministry, the National Fishing Corporation (Fishcor), View more
2020-08-27Roland Routh The State has brought an application to amend the money laundering charge against two Namibians and 12 Angolan citizens accused of having ripped off government more than N$210 million in alleged forged tax refund claims. View more
2020-08-28Roland Routh Disgruntled Anti-Corruption Commission investigator Phelem Masule is fighting back against his unceremonious removal as chief of investigations and prosecutions at the anti-graft agency. View more
2020-08-31Roland Routh Okahandja municipality has approached the Windhoek High Court to evict people currently occupying municipal land “illegally” in the areas of Eekunde Proper, Eekunde Extension 5, Veddersdal Extensions 1, 2 and 3 and Five Rand Extension 3 and 4. View more
2020-08-31Roland Routh The main accused in the tax refund fraud trial, which is ongoing in the Windhoek High Court, has denied any wrongdoing before acting Judge Kobus Miller. View more
2020-08-31Roland Routh WINDOKO – Mubatisisi wa katengo kaka lwanisa litaba za bulyangelino ili kaka zibahala ka ACC Phelem Masule, waitwanela kasamulaho akulundulwa fasitulo sakuba yomuhulu walitaba zakuzekisa ni kubatisisa kwa katengo kaka lwanisa litaba za bulyangelino. View more
2020-09-01Roland Routh The State wants to send a farmworker to jail for at least 32 years after he pleaded guilty to killing his girlfriend on 4 September 2018 at Post Houtputz in the Otjombinde area near Tallismanus in the Gobabis district. View more
2020-09-02Roland Routh Another murder trial was stopped in its tracks this week when High Court Judge Nate Ndauendapo postponed the partly heard case to February next year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. View more
2020-09-03Roland Routh Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila has denied, in the strongest terms, that anything untoward unfolded in her setting aside the promotion of Anti-Corruption Commission investigator Phelem Masule to the position of chief of investigations and prosecution. View more
2020-09-04Roland Routh Windhoek High Court Deputy Judge President Hosea Angula said the application by Seaflower Pelagic Processing (SPP) to interdict the fisheries ministry from auctioning off fish quotas to the highest bidder was a desperate attempt to save its cosy but parasitic relationship with National Fishing Corporation of Namibia (Fishcor). View more
2020-09-04Roland Routh The matter in which Anti-Corruption Commission chief investigator, Phelem Masule, is suing Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila over his unceremonious removal as chief of investigations and prosecutions barely a few days after he attained the promotion will only be heard next week Thursday. View more
2020-09-07Roland Routh Windhoek High Court Judges Kobus Miller and Dinnah Usiku on Friday dismissed an appeal by two senior South African lawyers who were found guilty and fined after admitting they did not have work permits allowing them to represent the six men charged in the Fishrot corruption scandal. View more
2020-09-07Roland Routh Windhoek High Court Judge Claudia Claasen has sentenced an Omaheke farmworker to an effective 32-year jail term for what she described a horrific murder. View more
2020-09-07Roland Routh WINDOKO – Taba yeo mubatisisi yomuhulu mwa ofesi yelwanisa litaba za bulyangelino ili yezibahala ka ACC, Phelem Masule ya zekisa Ngambela Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila hala kulundulwa fasitulo sa litaba za kubatisisa ni kuzekisa, mazazinyana amano huliswa ika kena mwa Khuta Yepahami Labune. View more
2020-09-08Roland Routh American Marcus Thomas, who is accused of the assassin-like murder of Andre Heckmair in Windhoek in 2011, is now using the Covid-19 pandemic to cause further delays in the trial he is facing with fellow American Kevin Townsend. View more
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