Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku on Wednesday sentenced a man who killed his girlfriend over rumours that she was unfaithful by beating her several times with a 14kg stone, to an effective 41 years in jail. She convicted Jeremias Nowaseb (40) of murder, read with the provisions of the Combating of Domestic Violence Act,...
Convicted killer Henok Negodhi (46) asked Windhoek High Court Judge Herman January on Monday to afford him time to apply for legal representation for his pre-sentencing procedure. He was convicted by Judge January in early November, of murdering his common-law wife by stabbing her at least 16 times with a knife on Christmas Day in...
The three men, accused of the murder and robbery of businessman Daniele Ferrari, pleaded not guilty to all charges in the Windhoek High Court before Judge Naomi Shivute yesterday. Kefas Iileka (36), Johannes Shetunyenga (35) and Antonio Muvua Cheme (28) are facing one count of murder, two counts of robbery with aggravating circumstances, alternatively receiving...
Windhoek High Court Judge Claudia Claasen on Friday said she will deliver her verdict on 21 February 2025 on the case of Rodney Afrikaner. The accused is alleged to have killed his common-law wife by stabbing her with a pair of scissors. He is facing a charge of murder, read with the provisions of the...
Windhoek High Court Judge David Munsu reserved his ruling on a bail application by Tamson Hatuikulipi (43), one of the alleged brains behind the Fishrot scandal, to 16 December at 10h00. In arguments on Friday, Mbanga Siyomunji said an accused remains not guilty until a competent court of law declares him guilty, and withholding bail...
Three judges of the Namibia Supreme Court upheld a ruling by Windhoek High Court Acting Judge Kobus Miller that the Master of the High Court is liable for losses suffered by an heir of an estate. Chief Justice Peter Shivute, Judge of Appeal Dave Smuts and Acting Judge of Appeal Shafimana Ueitele found that the...
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,...