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...
State prosecutor advocate Ethel Ndlovu on Friday asked Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku to impose a sentence that would deter would-be offenders from committing murder in a domestic setting. She said this during submissions for the appropriate sentence to be imposed on Jeremias Nowaseb (40), who was convicted of murder, read with provisions of...
Windhoek High Court Judge Herman January on Friday convicted a 46-year-old man of murdering his common-law wife by stabbing her at least 16 times with a knife on Christmas Day in 2021. The incident happened in full view of the minor children of the deceased, Ndapandula Ndinelago Imene. They had to testify in an open...
A former nurse who took a “witchdoctor” to court after he allegedly swindled her out of her house, wants the judge in the case to recuse himself for bias. Elizabeth Neis (63) is accusing Windhoek High Court acting judge Collins Parker of siding with the defendants in her suit, Kenneth Kasuma and Josephina Amutse. Parker had...
Regional Court Magistrate Kandiwapa Nembia yesterday identified 5 November as the date for the sentencing of former police reservist, Sakaria Kuutondokwa Kokule (51). This came after she heard arguments in mitigation and aggravation from defense and State counsels, Jermaine Muchali and Ian Malumani, respectively. Muchali asked the court to consider the more than four years...