Multichoice fraud suspects want new judge
WINDHOEK – Three suspects, who are on trial for allegedly defrauding Multichoice of over N$2 million, want Windhoek High Court Judge Kobus Muller to step down from their case.
- May 21st, 2019
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WINDHOEK – Three suspects, who are on trial for allegedly defrauding Multichoice of over N$2 million, want Windhoek High Court Judge Kobus Muller to step down from their case.
WINDHOEK - Three employees of farm Villa Rosa in Usakos have denied having a hand in the killing in October 2015 of their boss, Willem Cornelius de Klerk, aged 71 at the time.
WINDHOEK - A 27-year-old security guard at a Chinese national‘s home in Eros was arrested for nearly stealing all the furniture and other valuables last week while the house owner was out of the country. The guard now faces charges of housebreaking and theft.
KAHENGE - A 36-year-old man was arrested allegedly for possession of dagga after police reportedly found him with 2 990 kg of cannabis worth an unspecified amount which he tried to smuggle from neighbouring Angola into Namibia in a dug-out canoe.
WINDHOEK – A security guard was arrested on Saturday after running off with more than N$200 000 that he was meant to deposit on behalf of his employer in Gobabis.
WINDHOEK - Investigations into the case of a woman who stands accused of killing her relative over maize meal are yet to be concluded a year after the brutal and senseless killing.
WINDHOEK – The Namibian Police Force (Nampol) is still investigating events that led to the death of a 25-year-old man, who was stabbed to death by his 19-year-old ex-girlfriend in Katutura last year.
WINDHOEK - Legal teams in the matter between suspended City Police Chief Abraham Kanime and the City of Windhoek agreed in the High Court on Friday that the City’s Chief Executive Officer, Robert Kahimise, and the council of the City of Windhoek meet not later than May 22.
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WINDHOEK - Bank Windhoek is asking the Windhoek High Court to condone their late filing of an application to protect their interests in an application by the Prosecutor-General to have three erven and two vehicles forfeited to the State.
WINDHOEK - The Ministry of Justice and the Office of the Judiciary are worried at the pace at which cases are being finalised in the lower courts.
WINDHOEK - Mbanga Siyomunji, the lawyer for Lukas Nepela Nikodemus – his third one after Milton Engelbrecht and Jan Wessels – withdrew yesterday from the double murder trial citing lack of trust between him (the lawyer) and his client as the reason.
WINDHOEK - A woman who was arrested late last year for the murder of her neighbour over alcohol has been released on bail by Katutura Magistrate’s Court.
WINDHOEK - One of the men accused of killing the husband of a woman accused of paying them at least N$5 000 to murder her husband wants the Windhoek High Court to release him on bail in the middle of the trial.
NDONGA LINENA – The Namibian Agronomic Board chairperson, who is also chairperson of Agribank, Michael Iyambo,
ONGWEDIVA - Minors between the ages of two and six became suspects in a shocking murder of another infant child, aged two.
WINDHOEK – The trial of Morne Mouton is nearing its conclusion in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court with submissions before judgement geared for next week Tuesday.
WINDHOEK – A Thirty-four-year-old Chinese national was brutally murdered in Rehoboth on Wednesday last week.
WINDHOEK - Double murder accused, Lukas Nepela Nikodemus, the man charged with the murder and burning of two young women at a rubbish dump in Pionierspark in Windhoek, informed the Windhoek High Court he wishes to call three witnesses to testify in his defence.
WINDHOEK - The murder trial of the two Americans accused of the assassin like murder of Andre Heckmair in Windhoek in 2011 was yesterday postponed to June 16 to 20 for the continuation of their trial after Legal Aid agreed to avail another lawyer for Marcus Thomas.
WINDHOEK – A group of five men accused of stabbing and cutting to death a resident of Okahandja 11 years ago, will stand trial in September this year.
WINDHOEK – The prosecutor general has sent back the docket of a 21-year-old woman who is in custody for allegedly killing her pensioner lover to the investigating officer.
RUNDU - A 73-year-old man from Karangana village in Kavango West committed suicide after he was allegedly accused of witchcraft by his nephews and nieces. He killed himself on Thursday last week, police said. It is alleged that the deceased
ONGWEDIVA - Police in Kavango West have put up strict control measures to prevent livestock theft, under the guise of seeking greener pastures, in the two Kavango and other neighbouring regions through a public awareness program of anti-stock theft program.
WALVIS BAY - An increase in labour disputes have been recorded with at least 1358 cases being filed at the Office of the Labour Commissioner for the past three months.
WINDHOEK - A dispute over ownership of a shack caused a woman to burn it down, killing her boyfriend who was sleeping inside. It is alleged the suspect, 29, had an ownership dispute over a shack in which they were residing with her boyfriend as lovers.
WINDHOEK – The trial of former Windhoek-based public prosecutor Anthony Wilson is scheduled to start in September this year.
WINDHOEK – Oshakati High Court Judge Herman January last week sentenced a man he convicted of murdering the mother of his two minor children by beheading her with a panga to 30 years direct imprisonment on a count of murder with direct intent read with the provisions of the Domestic Violence Act.
RUNDU - Two men accused in the murder of Muronga Petrus Hafeni, 32, were denied bail when they made their routine first court appearance in the Rundu Magistrate’s Court yesterday. They were denied bail due to the seriousness of the charge against them.
SWAKOPMUND – A Chinese national who was arrested for allegedly trying to bribe a municipal traffic officer with N$200 to avoid a fine was released yesterday morning on N$10 000 bail.
WINDHOEK - Two Chinese nationals who admitted in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court that they attempted to bribe a police officer with N$4 000, failed at their attempt to have their conviction and sentence of two years direct imprisonment overturned on Friday in the Windhoek High Court.
OMUTHIYA – Police in Oshikoto Region last week raided a house in Tsumeb’s Nomtsoub location and seized cannabis worth N$70 600.
WINDHOEK - Lukas Nepela Nikodemus, 48, confessed to the Namibian Police Force that he shot one of the two deceased he is accused of murdering after she initially shot the other victim,
WINDHOEK - A group of 11 men and women who were arrested for their alleged involvement in a mob justice that resulted in the death of a 27-year-old Congolese refugee last year have denied guilt in Katutura Magistrate’s Court.
RUNDU - Security guard Simon Nzamene Ngongo, 29, appeared for the murder of the Good Friday shooting that claimed the life of Likuranu Markus Siwarongo, 26, at a local club in Rundu in the wee hours of last Friday.
RUNDU - Two Chinese accused in the recent murder of their employee Haushiku Andreas Muyevu at Andara village in Mukwe Constituency that sparked looting were on Tuesday denied bail when they made a routine court appearance in the Rundu Magistrate’s Court.
KEETMANSHOOP – The police in the //Kharas Region seized 216 kg of cannabis worth N1.8 million last week Thursday close to Keetmanshoop along the B1 main road.
ONGWEDIVA – The police in Oshana Region are investigating a case in which a 17-year-old learner was repeatedly raped between 2014 and 2018 allegedly by a 40-year-old woman.
WINDHOEK - Three judges of the Supreme Court last week issued an order for Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku to allow State Advocate Cliff Lutibezi to cross-examine a witness they consulted with, but in the end did not call, but who was called by the defense.
WALVIS BAY - An elderly resident of Walvis Bay is said to be in a critical condition following a failed suicide attempt.
SWAKOPMUND - The Chinese national who was arrested last week in connection with fraud was granted N$10 000 bail on Thursday during his second appearance in the Swakopmund Magistrate’s Court.
WINDHOEK - Marcus Thomas who was refused further legal aid from the Ministry of Justice’s Legal Aid Department after he went through five lawyers since the start of his trial, was thrown a legal lifeline by Legal Aid after they reconsidered their position and instructed Titus Ipumbu to represent him.
WINDHOEK - Recordings obtained by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of conversations between Daniel David Nghiwilepo, 42, and a former registry clerk at the Ministry of Finance, 39-year-old Veronika Kituna Thomas – who admitted
WALVIS BAY – Chinese national Li Cheng, who appeared in the Swakopmund Magistrate’s Court on Friday for producing a forged driver’s license, was denied bail.
WINDHOEK - State Advocate Solomon Kanyemba yesterday asked Acting High Court Judge Alfred Siboleka to convict a man who allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend on November 10, 2014 at Independence Beach in Walvis Bay, of murder with direct intent.
WINDHOEK - State Advocate Palmer Khumalo has asked Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku to impose three consecutive prison terms of 15 years each on Swakopmund resident Brendan van Wyk, for convictions of rape.
WINDHOEK – The trial of former Air Namibia cabin crewmember, Percival Mensah, will resume in May due to the unavailability of the presiding officer.
WINDHOEK - Rhyno Richardo du Preez (35), who admitted that he killed the husband of his former lover Rachel Elizabeth Rittmann (47) on August 23, 2013, in Gobabis, has made a U-turn and has asked the court to allow him to give evidence under oath.
WINDHOEK – The Katutura Magistrate’s Court showed mercy on a man who has been in police custody for allegedly stabbing his brother to death over N$20 last year.
WINDHOEK – The matter in which two members of the Ondonga royal family wanted the Windhoek High Court on an urgent basis to interdict a member of another faction from acting as if he was the successor to the throne was struck from the court roll on Friday for lack of urgency.
WALVIS BAY – A Swakopmund woman tragically died early yesterday morning when an approaching vehicle hit her. The incident happened close to the bridge in Swakopmund.
WALVIS BAY - The Namibian police in Swakopmund is investigating a case of alleged racial discrimination and defamation of character that was reported last week Wednesday.
ONGWEDIVA - Oshakati High Court Judge Marlene Tommasi on Friday sentenced Sem Shafoishuna Haufiku to an effective 17 years imprisonment for two counts of rape and a further two counts of housebreaking.
WINDHOEK - Four Chinese nationals convicted for the illegal possession of rhino horns, but acquitted on the main count of money laundering, were on Friday convicted on that charge on appeal in the Windhoek High Court.
WINDHOEK - The investigating officer dealing with the case of a man accused of slitting his ex-girlfriend’s throat with a knife and attempting to commit suicide, has been sent back to the drawing board by the prosecutor-general.
WINDHOEK – A Namibian Police (Nampol) officer explained a delay in police investigations in a murder case, citing work overload with 1000 cases assigned to her.
WINDHOEK -The Namibian Police (Nampol) is still investigating the case of a man who is accused of raping, genitally defiling and mutilating a 10-year-old girl last year.
RUNDU - The Rundu Magistrate’s Court, which had resorted to using a garage as a courtroom due to lack of space, will be getting two new prefabricated structures, featuring six offices and ablution facilities for the public.
ONGWEDIVA – Johannes Bokoma Nashikaku, who was earlier this month convicted of dealing with protected wildlife products, was on Tuesday slapped with a N$30 000 fine or alternatively three years imprisonment after appearing in the Tsumeb Magistrates Court.
RUNDU - The Police in Kavango East are on the hunt for Ndara “Councillor” Stefanus who last week escaped from police custody at Ndiyona.
OMUTHIYA – An inquest docket has been opened after the lifeless body of a toddler, identified as Wernel Tangeni, was discovered last week Thursday in a bucket of oshikundu at Onadhi village in Onyaanya Constituency.
ONGWEDIVA – Two men aged 24 and 34 were remanded in custody when they made their first court appearance in the Ohangwena Magistrate’s Court after they were arrested for possession of an elephant tusk on Friday.
WINDHOEK - A man from Mariental who admitted that he strangled a 16-year-old girl to death near a cemetery between October 19 and 21, 2016, before being convicted on two attempted murder counts, one count of rape, one count of crimen injuria and one count of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, wants the court to give him a lenient sentence.
WINDHOEK - The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) investigator that arrested Mamsy Mweneni Nuuyoma during a sting operation at Aveshe Consultancy on December 1, 2015 yesterday testified during the first day of an enquiry into the admissibility of certain documents that were confiscated from the house she rented with Boykie Naukosho in Dorado Park.
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WINDHOEK - Defence counsel Boris Isaacks last week took a man accused of killing his girlfriend and mother of his daughter through a series of incidents that marred his relationship with the deceased, in the Windhoek High Court before Judge Nate Ndauendapo.
WINDHOEK - The murder trial of two men accused of brutally killing and raping a Swakopmund resident in September 2005 resumed on Friday last week with both men convicted of murder and violating a dead body by Judge Nate Ndauendapo in the Windhoek High Court.
WINDHOEK - A man from Karasburg in southern Namibia, who was convicted of washing his victim and clothing her and putting her in their bed after he realised she died as a result of he beating her, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday by Judge Nate Ndauendapo.
WINDHOEK - A 21-year-old woman who has been in police custody on suspicion that she stabbed her 70-year-old lover multiple times to death last year has denied having a hand in his death.
OSHAKATI – Paulus Kaondi, 33, was on Friday sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in the Oshakati High Court for the murder of his girlfriend.
WINDHOEK - The prosecutor general is yet to make a decision in the case of a 56-year-old man who is in police custody for allegedly stabbing his live-in girlfriend to death two years ago.
WINDHOEK - Namibian nationals continue to be at the top of the list of people dealing with drugs, with more than 400 Namibians arrested since October 2017.
WINDHOEK - Despite State Advocate Ed Marondedze’s probing questions, Minister of Education Katrina Hanse-Himarwa, 51, the former governor of Hardap Region remained steadfast in her denials of any wrongdoing during the handing over of the Mariental Mass Houses in 2014.
WINDHOEK – The office of the Judiciary needs an additional N$64.2 million for the implementation of new bills and clearing the backlog of cases in the courts.
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WINDHOEK - A Swakopmund man who thought he got away with rape after the Windhoek High Court convicted him of indecent assault instead of rape got a rude awakening when the Namibia Supreme Court overturned his conviction and replaced it with one of attempted rape.
SWAKOPMUND - A Swakopmund resident Timoteus Iipinge (44), learned the hard way after he was sentenced to 12-months imprisonment on Monday for theft-out of a tourist vehicle.
ONGWEDIVA – An 18-year-old man was arrested and charged with murder after he allegedly fatally stabbed and killed a 21-year-old in a brawl over a watch on Monday evening.
OMUTHIYA – An uncle of a four-year-old girl was caught red-handed by the victim’s grandmother while defiling the minor in a mahangu field under a marula tree.
WINDHOEK - A former resident of Walvis Bay who drove to the North to commit two murders was sentenced to two life sentences in the Oshakati High Court by Judge Herman January on Friday last week. It was however ordered he should serve the sentences concurrently.
WINDHOEK - During the cross-examination of Paul Nakhom, a senior analyst at the Customs Division at the Ministry of Finance who was the second witness to testify for the State in the ongoing tax refund scam trial currently in the Windhoek High Court on Friday before Acting Judge Kobus Miller and his two assessors, John Mandy and Yolande Böttger several key issues relating to the process of claiming VAT refunds came to the fore.
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WINDHOEK - A former employee of the Road Fund Administration (RFA) that did not show up for court when his fraud trial was supposed to start in March was arrested and appeared on a warrant of arrest on Thursday afternoon.
WINDHOEK - An NDF soldier accused of deliberately murdering his biological daughter by drowning her in the Goreangab Dam in February 2017 wants the Windhoek High Court to release him on bail three months before his trial is set to start.
KEETMANSHOOP - Bail was granted yesterday to a 35-year old male murder accused in the Keetmanshoop Magistrate’s Court.
WINDHOEK - Two ordinary members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Namibia (ELCRN) want the proposed list of candidate bishops that are to be elected as leaders of the church declared null and void by the Windhoek High Court.
KATIMA MULILO – Six men aged between 23 and 42, were arrested on Sunday for poaching after they were allegedly caught red-handed in possession of four elephant tusks and a skin of a zebra at Kongola in the Bwabwata National Park of Zambezi Region.
KEETAMNSHOOP - The case of Valerie Bock, a former Suiderlig High School teacher accused of abducting a 15-year-old Grade 9 girl and committing immoral acts with her, was postponed in the Keetmanshoop Magistrate’s Court to 12 May 2019.
OSHAKATI – A strong contingent comprising family members, relatives, schoolmates and friends of a Unam student killed recently in Ongwediva, yesterday stood opposed to her alleged killer being granted bail.
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WINDHOEK - The trial of the two United States of America (USA) citizens accused of the assassin like murder of Andre Heckmair in Windhoek in 2011 is set to resume on April 15.
SWAKOPMUND - Three trial awaiting murder suspects, who escaped from the Swakopmund Police station holding cells were each sentenced to 18- months imprisonment for escaping from lawful custody.
WALVIS BAY - Inspector General of the Namibian police Sebastian Ndeitunga has appealed to the coastal community and business sector to acquire and employ technical equipment and systems such as closed circuit television systems (CCTV) in crime-prone areas.
WINDHOE - State Advocate Marthino Olivier has asked Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku to convict a man, already convicted of murdering a 16-year-old girl near a cemetery at Mariental, of a further three counts of rape, two counts of attempted murder and one count of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
WINDHOEK - Two Namibians and 12 Angolans accused of defrauding the Namibian government to the tune of N$210 million through false tax refunds on purchases exported from Namibia all pleaded not guilty to charges they are facing.
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WINDHOEK - The corruption trial of former governor of the Hardap Region and current minister of education Katrina Hanse-Himarwa is set to be postponed this week to a new date.
WINDHOEK - A well-known notorious robber whose video is trending on social media after he was last week severely beaten by fellow criminals is yet to make up his mind on whether to open a police case against his own or not - says the police.
WINDHOEK - State Advocate Cliff Lutibezi yesterday implored Windhoek High Court Judge Nate Ndauendapo to sentence a man from Karasburg in Southern Namibia who had his victim washed and clothed and put her in their bed after he
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RUNDU - A 16-year-old girl who was arrested on Sunday after she allegedly dumped her new-born at Katji na Katji village in the Kavango West Region was released in the care of her guardian when she appeared in court on Tuesday. She faces a charge of murder - alternative culpable homicide.
ONGWEDIVA - An employee of Ondonga Traditional Authority who was allegedly forced to drink poison by three men who broke into his room at Onethindi on Sunday is out of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and is now recuperating in hospital.
RUNDU - The Windhoek High Court has for the second time set aside the decision of the Minister of Urban and Rural Development to designate Eugene Siwombe Kudumo as the Chief of the Ukwangali Traditional Authority and community.
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WINDHOEK - Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku on Wednesday convicted Brendan van Wyk, 33, a resident of the seaside town of Swakopmund on three counts of rape, but acquitted him on a fourth rape count and a count of attempting to obstruct or defeat the course of justice at the High Court.
RUNDU - Four male inmates, two Angolan and two Motswana escaped from the police holding cells at Omega police station in Mukwe Constituency, Kavango East Region on Friday evening at 21h00.
WINDHOEK - In an ex parte application in terms of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act, the liquidators of the Small and Medium Enterprises Bank asked the Windhoek High Court to attach the possession of five people that had dealings with the now defunct bank that was meant to help SMEs.
WINDHOEK - Nedbank Namibia Limited has confirmed a break-in at its Otjiwarongo branch early on Monday morning in which an unknown number of suspects forced the window open and entered through an exit door and stole an unspecified but large amount of money.
RUNDU - A 44-year-old Zimbabwean driver was arrested for suspected culpable homicide in the early hours of Sunday, after he allegedly ran over a man who is suspected to have been drunk and blacked out along the Trans-Caprivi Highway at Mururani Village in Kavango West.
WINDHOEK - A man accused of trying to kill another by shooting him with an arrow through his pelvis and injuring his intestines in December last year was granted bail in the amount of N$5 000 after a lengthy bail application hearing.
OMUTHIYA -The former principal of Ekulo Senior Secondary School, Nahas Hamutenya, is stewing in his own sweat after he came under police investigation for the disappearance of cash exceeding N$250 000 from the school coffers that was meant to buy a school bus.
WALVIS BAY - Every Namibian is obligated to report any form of violations, especially gender-based violence, if they want a safer nation.
ONANKALI – An elderly woman from Onankali area was on Wednesday slapped with a fine of N$1 200 by the Ondonga Traditional Authority’s Onankali South District for defamation of character and rumour-mongering.
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WINDHOEK - No further delays will be tolerated, Acting High Court Judge Kobus Miller said yesterday when he was informed another State-funded lawyer in the mega tax refund trial that was scheduled to start earlier this week has to withdraw from the matter.
RUNDU - Learners at Rundu Secondary School suffered a highly traumatic experience after they stumbled upon a dead body hanging on the pavilion of their school’s netball court.
WINDHOEK- A 26-year-old man at Gochas in Hardap Region was arrested for the alleged rape of an 83-year-old grandmother over the weekend.
WINDHOEK - Stealing to support an expensive lifestyle including private schools and expensive weddings plus various failed business ventures landed a former assistant accountant in jail for eight years after Windhoek High Court Judge Kobus Miller convicted her of 34 counts of fraud and one count of money laundering on her own admission.
ONGWEDIVA – Trial-awaiting 36-year-old Abed Salom had an additional charge added to his multiple charges after he allegedly attempted to bribe a police officer to have him granted bail during his next court appearance.
SWAKOPMUND - Henties Bay resident Gerson Gawiseb (29), accused of viciously assaulting and robbing an elderly woman at the holiday coastal town, was denied bail.
OSHAKATI – The trial of schoolteacher Immanuel Mutikisha who stands accused of extortion, fraud and money laundering will continue in the Oshakati Regional Court from May 27 - 29.
WINDHOEK - Two judges of the Windhoek High Court on Monday dismissed an appeal by a man convicted of robbery, based on the doctrine of common purpose, for letting two persons into the complainant’s home, who overpowered a domestic worker and stole large amounts of cash and jewellery.
Eefa Doukadona - A 23-year-old student became the latest victim of domestic and gender-based violence (GBV) after her 27-year-old boyfriend allegedly stabbed her several times and slit her throat with a knife. She died instantly.
WINDHOEK - One of the accused in the on-going murder, robbery and rape trial currently in the Windhoek High Court told a fellow inmate that he was not worried about the case of a girl he stabbed to death, but about a case in which he killed a white man, Judge Nate Ndauendapo heard yesterday.
WINDHOEK- A Chinese national was robbed of N$ 120 000 on Friday by three masked men just before he entered the gate to his house in Eros. New Era learnt that the victim was dropped off at home after coming from the bank where he withdrew a lumpsum of money.
WINDHOEK - The 14-year-old teenage boy, who allegedly murdered and raped a 57-year-old woman at Bahnhof settlement last year, is yet to go for mental observation.
WINDHOEK – A 27-year-old Angolan national, who was convicted to eight years’ imprisonment for murdering his girlfriend, is now accused of killing two of his cousins, and injuring and raping his grandmother early Friday morning.
WINDHOEK - A Windhoek taxi driver who went outside during the wee hours of Tuesday to inspect strange noises from his car, was found dead in a riverbed in the vicinity of his house.
OSHAKATI – Businessman Sindano Hango, whose rape case dragged on for about three years, on Wednesday walked away a free man after he was acquitted in the Oshakati Regional Court.
SWAKOPMUND - An elderly female resident of Swakopmund, who is believed to have suffered from depression, allegedly committed suicide on Saturday morning at her family home.
SWAKOPMUND - The Namibian Police Force in Erongo is investigating a case of possible murder after a man was found dead last Wednesday morning in Kuisebmond.
ONGWEDIVA - A 20-year-old suspect, who allegedly killed his girlfriend on Friday, was last Sunday found dead with a bullet to his throat following a pursuit by the police.
WINDHOEK - Police spokesperson Chief Inspector Kauna Shikwambi has warned the public to be on the alert in light of the proliferation of online scams targeting members of the public.
WINDHOEK – The Namibian police has urged members of the public to keep a distance from crime scenes.
WINDHOEK - An Angolan man is expected to appear in the Okahao Magistrate’s Court today after he allegedly killed the mother of his two children by beating her with a super brick on the head multiple times yesterday before setting two huts on fire.
WINDHOEK - A 45-year-old man was arrested after he stabbed two people, killing one and injuring the other over N$10. The incident happened on Sunday early morning at Sonderwater Rehoboth. Police spokesperson, Deputy Commissioner Edwin Kanguatjivi confirmed the suspect stabbed the deceased on the left side of the chest with a knife and the victim died on the spot.
WINDHOEK - two men raped a 34-year-old woman on her way home from a house where she was drinking Tombo in Mariental on Saturday evening. The incident happened at Aimablaagte location at about 22h50.
EKAMBA - An 18-year-old man died on the spot after he was fatally stabbed with a knife at Ekamba village on the outskirts of Oshakati.
WINDHOEK - State Advocate Simba Nduna yesterday asked Windhoek High Court Judge Nate Ndauendapo to convict former magistrate Melaney Theron on 17 charges of misconduct while she was still a magistrate at the Oshakati Magistrate’s Court.
RUNDU - A Namibian who originates from Zimbabwe Nevers Chirimugaha,51 was on Friday denied bail when he made a routine court appearance in the Rundu Magistrate’s Court on three counts, a charge of fraud, theft by false pretence, forgery and uttering a forged instrument.
NKURENKURU - The police in Kavango West have arrested a 29-year-old man suspected to have fatally stabbed a pregnant woman identified as Hamunyera Annastacia Ihemba, 25.
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ONGWEDIVA – The Namibian Police in Omusati Region has distanced itself from reports of an alleged fracas between the police and street vendors at Outapi yesterday as it was widely publicised on social media.
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WINDHOEK - The office of the Prosecutor General yesterday applied to be granted leave to appeal the ruling of Windhoek High Court Judge Christi Liebenberg that effectively sunk their case against Teckla Lameck and her business partner in Teko Trading, Jerobeam Kongo Mokaxwa.
WINDHOEK –– A 28-year-old woman was allegedly raped in front of her minor son after an acquaintance forcefully entered their shack over the weekend in Gibeon.
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RUNDU - Dominga Isala, 43, arrested a week ago with five boxes of dagga weighing 103 kg with a street value exceeding N$1 million was denied bail in the Rundu Magistrate’s Court where she was arraigned last Wednesday while her co-accused Erastus Munango, 24, was granted bail of N$3 000.
WINDHOEK - The Omusati regional police has expressed concern about the incident in which an eight-year-old girl was allegedly brutally raped by a 29-year-domestic man of Angolan origin at Oshimanangombe village in Omusati Region.
WINDHOEK - The City Police has arrested a suspect and recovered N$4 300 which was swindled from a woman. The police is further investigating the matter.
OMUTHIYA - Unknown suspects on Monday stole N$88 326 in cash and goods worth N$11 809 when they broke into Weyo trading enterprises at Onyaanya, Oshikoto Region.
WINDHOEK – No arrest has yet been made a month after a taxi driver was found dead and half-naked in Otjomuise, police say.
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OMUTHIYA - Crime and motor accidents in Oshikoto Region drastically reduced over the festive season, an achievement the Deputy Commissioner for Crime Prevention, Petrus Shigwedha, attributed to various tactical operations such as night foot and vehicle patrols in town and villages, as well as setting up permanent roadblocks.
OMUTHIYA -A young man who was brutally stabbed with a knife on Christmas Eve in the area of Onyuulaye, Oshikoto Region, is still fighting for his life in Onandjokwe hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, nearly a month after the vicious knifing incidence.
WINDHOEK - Maternity leave is between employers and employees and not between an accused and the court, Acting Judge of the Windhoek High Court Kobus Miller said yesterday.
WINDHOEK - The tax refund scam trial that was supposed to have started yesterday was postponed to today after Acting High Court Judge Kobus Miller was informed that several issues including legal representation for some of the accused still need resolving.
RUNDU - The police in Kavango West are investigating a case whereby a 19-year-old man was bumped along the Rundu-Nkurenkuru B10 main road. The unknown driver failed to report the accident nor render any assistance to the injured victim as is required by law.
OSHAKATI – A 38-year-old man convicted of dealing in cannabis, illegal entry into Namibia through undesignated point and money laundering has pleaded with the Oshakati Regional Court to issue him with a fine.
ONGWEDIVA – The family of seven-year-old girl from Onailonga village in Ohangwena Region is devastated after the young girl was sexually molested allegedly by a fellow learner while on her way home from school.
WALVIS BAY - Two suspects appeared before the Omaruru Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, following a robbery last Tuesday at Erongo Wilderness Lodge, outside Omaruru.
ONGWEDIVA – A 42-year-old police officer at Ondangwa was allegedly stabbed to death by his girlfriend at Onguta location in Ondangwa on Saturday.
OMUTHIYA - Industrialisation, Trade and SME Development Minister Tjekero Tweya survived yet another accident in December when the official vehicle he was driving rammed into a donkey.
WALVIS BAY - Police in the Erongo Region arrested two suspects and confiscated mandrax tablets and cannabis over the weekend in Walvis Bay during an operation at the town.
WINDHOEK - A man who allegedly drove someone’s vehicle without consent was involved in an accident that claimed a passenger’s life and left him seriously injured in Omusati Region.
WINDHOEK - The two men still in custody over the alleged murder of renowned stock theft investigator, Hiambepo ‘Major’ Kazeurua yesterday asked the Windhoek High Court to allow them to apply for bail on their own.
WINDHOEK - Windhoek City Police will focus on curbing illegal taxis this festive season as they are used to rob customers and as get away vehicles, the spokesperson of the City Police,
WINDHOEK - Immanuel Tjikunga who is serving a life sentence in the Windhoek Correctional Facility for convictions on May 03, 1995 on robbery and murder has lost a half-baked bid to be released on parole after he served 23 years of his life sentence.
WINDHOEK - Four men allegedly held a 20-year-old woman at knife-point and proceeded to brutally rape her after they ambushed her from her residence in Otjomuise early yesterday morning shortly after the victim tried to enter her house from work.
ONGWEDIVA - The Oluno Correctional Facility has yet again successfully nabbed a drug supplier and an inmate for allegedly attempting to smuggle cannabis into the prison facility on Monday.
ONGWEDIVA - The Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) has condemned the brutal atrocities perpetrated against women and children following the killing of its Elim District Secretary in Omusati Region Annastasia Iipumbu-Shivute allegedly at the hands of her husband on Thursday.
WINDHOEK - A seven-month-old baby girl died instantly after her biological mother allegedly hit her head three times against a concrete bench, which is inside her homestead. She allegedly also threw the hapless infant over the boundary wall last Thursday in an incident that has shocked her neighbours.
WINDHOEK - No arrest has been made regarding the half-naked taxi driver who was found dead in an Otjomuise riverbed a week ago, said Khomas Regional Crime Investigation Coordinator Deputy Commissioner Abner Agas.
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WINDHOEK - Two Chinese nationals sentenced to 24 months in jail each for attempting to bribe a police official with N$4000 to stop her investigation into a money laundering complaint against one of them was last Friday denied bail pending an appeal they lodged against the sentence.
WINDHOEK – Two people who were arrested in September for allegedly committing medical aid fraud which caused taxpayers to lose more than N$130 000 are at risk of having more charges added to their case.
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WINDHOEK - Eldrin Goliath, the now 22-year-old resident of Rehoboth who was convicted of murder with direct intent, rape and theft will be sentenced tomorrow in the Windhoek High Court, Judge Christi Liebenberg stated yesterday after hearing oral submissions by the state and defence counsels.
WINDHOEK - Just one day after he was convicted of murder with direct intent for killing the mother of his two children by stabbing her 14 times with a knife, a Grootfontein resident was sentenced to 35 years behind bars by Oshakati High Court Judge, Johanna Salionga last week.
WINDHOEK- Windhoek Magistrates Court postponed the case of a Windhoek City Police Constable who is facing fraud charges in connection with N$1.9 million in medical benefits due to incomplete police investigations.
WINDHOEK – The case of a mother accused of scalding her ten-year-old son with boiling water in October has been postponed to February to allow the police to finalise their investigations
WINDHOEK – A man who was pin-pointed out by his co-accused for having murdered Alex Maluli Mushe on April, 2017 wants to be released on bail.
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WINDHOEK - Acting Windhoek High Court judge, Ileni Velikoshi, last Thursday denied 66-year-old farmer, Willem Visagie Barnard, bail pending the finalisation of his appeal hearing on a conviction of murder and 10 year sentence for killing his wife at their farm in the Mariental district.
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WINDHOEK - A Swakopmund resident accused of raping a 14-year-old and another woman in the spate of five days after being released on bail on a previous rape charge, claimed his alleged victims consented.
WINDHOEK - A 19-year-old woman, arrested in July for allegedly killing her 25-year-old ex-lover, was finally released on bail in Katutura Magistrates Court after four months since her arrest.
WINDHOEK – “Justice was served on earth and in heaven,” former Supreme Court Judge Pio Marapi Teek said on Monday after three acting judges of appeal dismissed an appeal the Prosecutor-General (PG) lodged against his acquittal on charges of kidnapping and sexual molestation.
KEETMANSHOOP - A police officer turned up for duty at the Keetmanshoop Police Station drunk and allegedly in possession of illicit drugs on Friday.
WINDHOEK - A 21-year-old resident of Rehoboth, who had his plea of guilty on a murder charge rejected by both the prosecution and the presiding judge for not complying with all the elements of a guilty plea, was convicted on a charge of murder with direct intent on Friday.
WINDHOEK - Windhoek High Court judge, Dinnah Usiku, rejected an application by one of the five men accused of the murder of Walvis Bay businessman, Hans-Jorg Möller, during a daring robbery to be furnished with further particulars on one of the charges that he faces.
WINDHOEK - Windhoek Magistrate’s Court gave a lengthy postponement in the case of a former security guard accused of killing a 32-year-old woman whose body was discovered near Unam’s main campus this year.
WINDHOEK - A man accused of killing a boy he was made to believe was his own son, until he heard rumours to the contrary after his break-up with the mother of the boy pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder read with the Domestic Violence Act before Windhoek High Court Judge Nate Ndauendapo.
WINDHOEK - Police investigations into the case of a woman accused of killing her own cousin in February after a row over maize meal is yet to be completed.
ONGWEDIVA - Martha Kanyemba, 34, who made news in September when she was arrested for smuggling drugs into the Oluno Correctional Facility, was last month shown the door and dismissed from her work.
RUNDU - Henrique Valentino, 38, an Angolan who was arrested on October 4, was on Tuesday found guilty of the illegal possession of controlled wildlife products
SWAKOPMUND - The two suspects arrested in connection with a record cocaine haul with a street value of N$206 million, will have to remain in custody until 30 May next year.
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WINDHOEK – The case of former president of the Student Representative Council (SRC) from the University of Namibia (Unam) was withdrawn last week due to the unavailability of state witnesses.
WINDHOEK - The Katutura Magistrate’s Court yesterday postponed to January next year the case of a man who stands accused of killing his brother over N$20.
WINDHOEK - The failure of two disgruntled members of Swapo to join other interested parties when they decided to approach the Windhoek High Court to stop the extra-ordinary Congress of Swapo slated for this weekend backfired when High Court Judge Thomas Masuku upheld an objection by the party and its secretary general Sophia Shaningwa about the non-joinder.
WINDHOEK – The prosecutor general has decided to prosecute a former Windhoek-based public prosecutor, alongside 20 other people, for the witness fees scam that saw the Office of the Judiciary lose hundreds of thousands of dollars.
WINDHOEK – The trial of a man who stands accused of killing a Windhoek City Police officer and two civilians in a freak car accident will continue next year.
WINDHOEK – The Windhoek Regional Court further postponed the trial of a 53-year-old man who is on trial for allegedly dealing in cannabis worth more than N$200 000. Appearing on bail for the continuation of his trial Makono Victus, 53, was informed that his trial will not proceed as scheduled due to the unavailability of his defence attorney Garth Joseph.
OMUTHIYA - The body of a missing woman from Oilavati village of Ohangwena Region was discovered yesterday along the gravel road between Oshivelo and Tsintsabis in Oshikoto Region.
WINDHOEK - The University of Namibia (Unam) student who was arrested for murder earlier this year is expected to tender his preliminary plea in the matter next year.
WINDHOEK – A former cabin crew who is accused of using Namibia’s national airline for drug dealing purposes has denied guilt when he took the stand in Windhoek Regional Court for his trial yesterday.
WINDHOEK - The case of a 48-year-old Congolese woman, Abigail Musasa Bashala, who is accused of smuggling fellow Congolese into Namibia, has been postponed to November 26.
WINDHOEK – The prosecutor-general is expected to decide the fate of a man who stands accused of killing his brother in June this year.
RUNDU - Two suspects were apprehended by the Namibian Police on Monday for possession of two pangolins at Mururani village in Mankupi Constituency.
WINDHOEK – Joy and delight was evident last week when the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court provisionally withdrew the fraud case against former employees of Namibian Sports Commission (NSC).
ONGWEDIVA – A man is fighting for his life in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Oshakati Intermediate Hospital, after he was allegedly stabbed with a knife following an argument over a cellphone.
KEETMANSHOOP - Those who may have been involved in the N$400,000 robbery of the Agra shop at Maltahöhe last Monday are still at large and the police reward for information that may lead to their arrest still stands.
WALVIS BAY - The rape and child trafficking case of the Russian marine pilot, Alexander Krylov (57), and his co-accused Anna Katrina Engelbrecht (27), has now been transferred to the High Court in Windhoek by the Prosecutor General.
WINDHOEK – The psychiatrist, who examined a 36-year-old mother accused of strangling her one-month-old baby to death, has declared her fit to stand trial.
WINDHOEK - A 32-year-old woman was denied bail in the Katutura Magistrate’s Court after hitting a man from the same neighburhood with a stone to death, following an argument over alcohol in 8ste Laan last week.
WINDHOEK – A former Windhoek-based magistrate who resigned following her suspension on criminal charges is set to finally get a date for her trial.
WINDHOEK – Police in Omusati Region have observed that many Angolan nationals employed in northern Namibian have developed a habit of committing crimes and then flee back to their country, making it difficult for police to apprehend them.
WINDHOEK – A man who three years ago gruesomely murdered his cousin in Katutura was sentenced to 15 years in prison this week.
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WINDHOEK – The Prosecutor-General is set to decide the fate of a man who is currently in police custody for allegedly slitting his ex-girlfriend’s throat and attempting suicide in March.
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WINDHOEK - Levi Haneb, 32, who was convicted of murder with direct intent on his own admission and a charge of common assault and assault by threat was sentenced to life imprisonment on the murder charge.
WINDHOEK - The trial of five men accused of murdering Walvis Bay businessman Hans-Jorg Möller during a daring robbery was postponed yesterday to tomorrow.
WINDHOEK – The mother of a 27-year-old man allegedly shot dead by Refugees Commissioner Likius Valombola has demanded justice in the matter.
WINDHOEK - Police in Omusati Region are investigating the death of a child who allegedly fell into a pot of boiling cooking oil at Olefa open market in Outapi last week.
WINDHOEK – Johannes Neuaka, accused of gunning down the mother of his child at her mother’s home in January, will only make a return in court next year.
WINDHOEK - A 22-year-old man is fighting for his life in the Oshakati Intermediate Hospital where he is receiving treatment after he was reportedly shot in the head by a security guard of King Nehale Security Company.
WINDHOEK – The Windhoek Regional Court convicted a Windhoek resident for the death of his relative. Magistrate Elina Nandago convicted Benny Goliath on a charge of murder for the vicious attack and stabbing to death of his cousin Jacques Geingob on January 15, 2014 in Katutura.
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WINDHOEK - Katutura Magistrate’s Court yesterday had to postpone the case of Refugees Commissioner Likius Valombola because of the docket that was not available for court proceedings.
OMUTHIYA - A drinking spree between cousins ended tragically when a 19-year-old man was stabbed to death on Tuesday night following an argument over a cigarette.
WINDHOEK - A 41- year-old woman suspected of having aborted her unborn baby last month has been arrested in Havana informal settlement.
WINDHOEK - Windhoek Magistrate’s Court had to postpone the N$2.5 million fraud case of seasoned attorney Titus Mbaeva following the failure of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to submit the docket to the Prosecutor-General.
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WINDHOEK - The man accused of killing his girlfriend and mother of his daughter pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder in the Windhoek High Court on Monday morning and told the court he cannot remember anything that happened on that fateful day.
WINDHOEK - A 43-year-old hearing impaired man who confessed he killed the 56-year-old mother of his girlfriend by stabbing her with a screwdriver four times in her upper body five days after he hacked his brother-in-law with a panga on the shoulder was sentenced to 28 years in prison last week.
KEETMANSHOOP - The Namibian police have arrested a man suspected of fatally stabbing a woman said to be his ex-girlfriend at a bar at Keetmanshoop over the weekend.
WINDHOEK - The termination of contract by a transcribing company has caused a delay in the fraud case of a senior accountant of the Ministry of Finance, in connection with dubious medical aid claims.
WINDHOEK – A Yemeni national in police custody on suspicion of having gunned down, execution-style, Malian national Gamby Baya, following a botched business deal in 2016, will stand trial in 2019.
WINDHOEK – A Swakopmund resident who allegedly raped a 14-year-old and another woman in the spate of five days after being released on bail on a previous rape charge pleaded not guilty to four counts of rape and one count of attempting to defeat or obstruct the course of justice, alternatively obstructing a member of the police from carrying out his or her duties.
SWAKOPMUND - Murder suspect, Ivan Pitt (29), wanted by the police in connection with the brutal murder of his girlfriend Lindie Prinsloo was found dead on Monday morning.
ONGWEDIVA - The police in Outapi yesterday had to use pepper spray to disperse about 100 street vendors who went on an angry rampage, after the police allegedly confiscated and threw away the goods they were selling. Amongst those teargassed indiscriminately were three toddlers strapped on their mothers’ backs, witnesses said.
WINDHOEK – Drug dealing in Namibia is increasing worryingly, with police confiscating a staggering N$1.9 million worth of drugs last month alone, and arresting 115 Namibians and several foreigners.
RUNDU - A decomposed body of a 59-year-old woman was discovered on Saturday at around 10h00 in Mpaga forest at Rupara village in Kavango West Region.
WINDHOEK - Mariental resident Hendrik Atab Swartz admitted that he killed 16-year-old Estonovia Games near a cemetery at Mariental between October 19 and 21, 2016, but denied other charges, including rape, before Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku.
WINDHOEK – The Windhoek Regional Court last week gave a final remand to have a mother accused of killing her one-month-old baby undergo mental observation.
WINDHOEK – The case of a Namibian Police Force (Nampol) officer who is accused of attempting to kill two people, and killing one member of the public with a stray bullet, will resume in 2019.
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WINDHOEK – The family of a man who worked at a construction site in Otjomuise are torn apart after his colleague allegedly stabbed him senselessly 10 times a week ago.
NKURENKURU - A 41-year-old woman was on Monday allegedly raped and strangled by a 29-year-old man at Wini village south of Nkurenkuru in Kavango West Region.
WINDHOEK – “Surely it is understandable that family members and members of the public are not happy with the commission of the offence by the accused but I am not going to punish someone who has not yet been found guilty,” said Magistrate George Mbundu.
WINDHOEK - Judge President Petrus Damaseb said that there is a need for change in the stance of Namibian courts on drug-related cases and to accord the necessary weight to the seriousness of such offences and its prevalence in society.
KHORIXAS - Magistrate Muchali Jermaine Muchali recently issued a fine of N$3000 or 18 months imprisonment to Uatjindisa Tjambiru (55), for possessing a herd of six stolen goats that the accused hid in his corrugated iron zinc shack at Donkerhoek informal settlement in Khorixas. Tjambiru paid the fine.
WINDHOEK - A Gobabis resident accused of killing his three-month-old son by picking him up and throwing him on the ground causing him to die later that day in hospital from a fractured skull, has pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder yesterday before Windhoek High Court Judge Nate Ndauendapo in the Windhoek High Court.
WINDHOEK - Levi Haneb, 32, convicted of murder with direct intent on his own admission and a charge of common assault and assault by threat will hear his fate on November 13, the Windhoek High Court said yesterday.
WALVIS BAY - Three first time offenders who stole N$24 800 worth of goods from a South African tourist this month at Walvis Bay, had a rude awakening when they each got ten months imprisonment.
WINDHOEK - The Windhoek Magistrate’s Court on Friday postponed a case of former University of Science and Technology (NUST) employee accused of fraud and money laundering for N$1.2 million due to incomplete investigations.
WINDHOEK - Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku last Friday sentenced Gobabis resident, Jacob Hoxobeb, 32, whom she convicted of murder with direct intent to an effective 34 years behind bars for the killing of his girlfriend and mother of his three children by stabbing her at least 16 times.
WINDHOEK - The corruption trial of Education Minister Katrina Hanse-Himarwa (51), is set to start this morning in the Windhoek High Court before High Court Judge Nate Ndauendapo with her expected to plead not guilty to one count of corruption.
WALVIS BAY - “My father was very abusive. One day he beat my mother so bad that I thought she would die. I ran to a nearby house for help, but the uncle I found told me to go back home as everything would be fine.”
RUNDU - The Rundu Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday denied bail to 24-year-old Henog Dihako from Mushashani village in Mukwe Constituency who stands accused of murder, rape and defeating the course of justice, as he tried to conceal the heinous crime against his girlfriend by burying her body in a shallow grave.
WINDHOEK – One of the three suspects who stand accused of attempting to steal N$1.1 million from Air Namibia, Marx Felali Mahoto, has passed away.
WINDHOEK - A 16-year-old school boy who for the fourth time allegedly broke into his neigbhour’s flat and stole items was arrested yesterday along with his two friends.
WINDHOEK- Former CEO of the Roads Contractor Company (RCC) Kelly Nghixulifa and his business friends Anna Ndoroma, 53, and 50-year-old Hafeni Nginamwaami got new trial dates yesterday when they made a routine appearance before Windhoek High Court Judge Christi Liebenberg.
WINDHOEK - High Court Judge Thomas Masuku has ordered a farmer to remove a fence that he erected in 2015 on a farm in Oshikoto Region, saying the act was illegal.
WINDHOEK - Three judges of the Namibian Supreme Court yesterday struck from the roll the appeal of the minority shareholders in the liquidated SME Bank for failing to file their heads of argument within the prescribed three months after the judgment to finally wind up the bank was handed down by the High Court.
WINDHOEK – The Katutura Magistrate’s Court yesterday postponed a murder case of a man standing accused of slitting his ex-girlfriend’s throat and attempting suicide earlier this year.
WINDHOEK – After several postponements, the verdict in the trial of former Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) Managing Director Tobias Aupindi and his co-accused Italian business partner Antonio di Savino is due to be handed down today in Windhoek Magistrate’s Court.
RUNDU - The case of Linus Tuzeerendo Neumbo of Neumbo Private Investigators Agency accused of forgery and uttering alternatively fraud was postponed to 04 December for the court to set a trial date.
WINDHOEK - The Gobabis resident who admitted that he killed his girlfriend and mother of his three children by stabbing her at least 16 times with a knife was yesterday convicted on the additional charge of assault by threat.
WINDHOEK - A resident of the small town of Outjo was convicted on Friday on a charge of murder with direct intent on his own admission and a charge of common assault and assault by threat after the state called witnesses.
WINDHOEK - Immanuel Nepela, 28, who is in custody for allegedly inflicting a fatal stab wound that killed his brother is expected to plead to the charge of murder on Thursday.
WINDHOEK – The Katutura Magistrate’s Court is set to make a ruling in the bail application of a man who stands accused of murdering his live-in girlfriend in October 2017.
WINDHOEK – The Prosecutor General’s Office got another chance to have the bail cancelled for three suspected robbers targeting tourists after their appeal against the decision of Magistrate Johannes Shuuveni.
KEETMANSHOOP- A woman has been arrested by the police for allegedly stabbing and killing her 60-year-old boyfriend at farm Platsand in the Rehoboth district.
OSHAKATI - The self-proclaimed pastor of a charismatic church at Olululongo, accused of raping a congregant on September 13 2013, has denied the charge, claiming she is jealous of him.
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WINDHOEK - The prosecutor general has sent the docket back to the investigating officer in the case of six foreign nationals accused of a gangster-style armed robbery at West Lane shopping complex in Pionierspark Extension 1, Windhoek.
WINDHOEK - Nearly several months in police custody, Paulina Dreyers a woman accused of fatally stabbing her relative to death over maize meal in February was on Tuesday released on bail of N$1,000 in the Katutura Magistrate’s Court.
WINDHOEK - The Katutura Magistrate’s Court refused bail to Johannes Neuaka, 39, the man accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend and mother to his child in January this year.
ONGWEDIVA - Police in Oshana have appealed to the public withdrawing huge sums of cash to request a police escort as there is a trend of criminals robbing people after they withdraw lump sums of money.
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SWAKOPMUND - The trial of Jandre Dippenaar, who is accused of murder in the aftermath of a fatal car crash in December 2014, was postponed to 18 November for a second expert witness to testify.
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OSHAKATI - The persons appealing for bail in the human trafficking hearing which has been ongoing at the Oshakati Magistrate’s Court for the past two weeks will hear their fate today.
WINDHOEK - The Windhoek Magistrate’s Court yesterday postponed the case of four people arrested in Windhoek with drugs worth over N$200 000.
WINDHOEK - A Gobabis man who admitted to stabbing the mother of his five children, at least 16 times with a knife because he suspected her of having an affair with a taxi driver, was convicted of murder with direct intent yesterday morning by Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku on his own admission.
WINDHOEK - An elderly man who admitted in Windhoek Magistrate’s Court to being in possession of a rhino horn, ivory and other wildlife products will stand trial in the Windhoek Regional Court.
WINDHOEK – A 16-year-old stabbed and killed a 36-year-old man on Sunday evening who could not pay back the money he had borrowed from the alleged assailant.
RUNDU - New Era has learned that the police in Rundu have been on a hunt to rearrest an inmate who recently escaped from the Rundu charge office holding cells during the early hours of 7 October or during the night of 6 October.
WINDHOEK - High Court Judge President Petrus Damaseb yesterday sentenced convicted child trafficker, Bertus Koch, the DRC settlement of Swakopmund resident to an effective eight years imprisonment on convictions of child trafficking and committing an immoral act with a child under the age of 16. The sentence was meted out in the morning.
KATIMA MULILO - A 15-year-old boy appeared in the Katima Mulilo Magistrate’s Court yesterday for allegedly molesting a six-year-old girl on Tuesday afternoon.
WINDHOEK - The trial of eight men still facing charges of high treason, murder, attempted murder, sedition, public violence and illegal importation of weapons and ammunition resumed in the Windhoek High Court this week after the Chief Justice, Peter Shivute, denied a petition directed at him.
WINDHOEK – Namibia Airports Company (NAC) through its new Board of Directors is asking the Windhoek High Court to review and set aside a decision and resolution taken by the previous board of the embattled public company to award a tender to China State Construction Engineering Company (CSCES) to be appointed as the contractor for the Ondangwa Airport Runway Rehabilitation Project.
KATIMA MULILO - Three suspected poachers were denied bail when they appeared before magistrate Boyd Namushinga in the Katima Mulilo Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
KATIMA MULILO - Nzundamo Kabala, 35, was denied bail when he appeared in the Katima Mulilo Magistrate’s Court yesterday on charges of murder and attempted murder.
WINDHOEK - The Katutura Magistrate’s Court released on bail a Namibian Police Force officer who was in custody for allegedly shooting two people and killing one with a stray bullet in Okahandja Park’s informal settlement.
ONGWEDIVA – The Nampost branch at the Dr Frans Aupa Indongo Open Market in Oshakati lost about N$58 506 during a lunchtime burglary last Friday.
RUNDU - A 13-year-old girl from Tuhingireni informal settlement is recovering from a gunshot wound in the chest that she sustained during a shooting at their home in the wee hours of Sunday.
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AUSSENKEHR - Residents of Aussenkehr woke up to the horror news that a lifeless half-naked body of a woman was found at the farm in the //Kharas region last Saturday.
WINDHOEK – The mother who scalded her 10-year-old son with boiling water for apparently defying her orders to babysit his sibling was denied bail when she appeared in court.
WINDHOEK – A Windhoek City Police constable made his first appearance in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court last week on charges of fraud and falsifying documents to illegally get medical benefits of N$1,9 million.
WINDHOEK - A man from King Kauluma village in the Tsumeb District who was on trial for almost severing the head of his girlfriend and the mother of his two minor children was convicted of murder with direct intent by High Court Judge Herman January in the Oshakati High Court at the close of trial.
WINDHOEK - Lukas Nepela Nikodemus, the man charged with the murder and burning of two young women at a rubbish dump in Pionierspark suburb in Windhoek, said he will plead not guilty when his trial starts in two weeks’ time in the Windhoek High Court before High Court Judge Christi Liebenberg.
WINDHOEK - Following one month of trying to convince the court to release him on bail, a security guard who stands accused of raping and killing Theresia Pietersen, 32, was denied bail by the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
WINDHOEK - State Advocate Cliff Lutibezi on Wednesday told High Court Judge Alfred Siboleka in the Windhoek High Court that the only reasonable sentence the court can impose on convicted killer Elwen Gawaxab is life imprisonment, sending him to jail for the next 25 years to safeguard innocent lives.
OSHAKATI - The first accused in the humana trafficking case currently before the Oshakati Magistrate’s Court, Sylvia Bonifatius, 18, alleged in her bail application hearing that she concealed the whereabouts of the victim to protect her against her father.
WINDHOEK - Police recorded four rape cases countrywide over the past weekend. Also, seven murder and two attempted murder cases were recorded.
WINDHOEK - The Katutura Magistrate’s Court has set a date to pronounce itself on the formal bail application of Johannes Neuaka, 39, who stands accused of fatally gunning down his girlfriend and mother of his child last January.
WINDHOEK - Lukas Nepela Nikodemus, the man charged with the murder and burning of two young women at a rubbish dump in Pionierspark suburb in Windhoek, wants the Windhoek High Court to release him on bail pending his trial.
WINDHOEK - The trial of prominent Windhoek lawyer Dirk Conradie and his long-time friend Sara Ngenohani Damases resumed in the Windhoek High Court yesterday with Mark Bongers, the man who taped a conversation he had with Conradie, facing cross-examination.
WINDHOEK – The defense counsel in the case of a man suspected of dealing in dangerous dependence products identified as cannabis, closed its case yesterday.
WINDHOEK - A 31-year-old Angolan national has appeared in Outapi Magistrate’s Court on allegations of having raped a 44-year-old woman.
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WINDHOEK - An Oshakati resident found himself in hospital after being brutally clobbered by members of the public for allegedly having murdered a 20-year-old man on Saturday night.
WINDHOEK -Investigations into the case of four men arrested in Windhoek for suspected drug dealing worth N$200 000 is yet to be finalised.
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WINDHOEK - Windhoek High Court Judge Naomi Shivute yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment, an Otjiwarongo man who admitted in the Windhoek High Court that he hacked his girlfriend 45 times in the head, neck and face.
WINDHOEK - A former senior police officer of the Namibian Police Force accused of shooting an 18-year-old to death was convicted yesterday on five of the six charges that he faced in the Windhoek High Court at the Windhoek Prison Facility by Judge Dinnah Usiku.
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WINDHOEK - Defence lawyer Milton Engelbrecht, representing an elderly man from Karasburg who allegedly had his murder victim washed and clothed and put her in bed after beating her, yesterday asked Judge Nate Ndauendapo to convict his client of culpable homicide instead of murder.
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WINDHOEK – The Prosecutor-General has decided to prosecute three men who stand accused of stealing N$1.1 million from Air Namibia.
WINDHOEK - A psychiatrist who examined a 21-year-old woman accused of stabbing her 70-year-old lover multiple times to death on February 25 has concluded she is fit to stand trial and can be held accountable for her actions.
ONGWEDIVA - A 32-year-old man was arrested for the alleged rape and assault of his 26-year-old girlfriend at Oshoopala in Uukwiyu Uushona Constituency on Saturday.
WINDHOEK - The Namibian Police Force (Nampol) recorded eight cases of suicide this past week alone, including that of a 56-year-old man who hanged himself on a tree at a cemetery in Golgota, Katutura.
WINDHOEK - One of the first police officers at the scene of the gruesome murder of 24-year-old Louise Ross Shimunu Alupe on November 10, 2014, at Dunes Independence Beach in Walvis Bay yesterday testified about what he found when he arrived at the scene.
WINDHOEK - Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku on Friday dished out the umpteenth life sentence since the Supreme Court declared the increasing long direct jail terms by the High Court inhumane, in what has become to be known as the ‘Gaingob Judgment’.
WINDHOEK – The Windhoek Regional Court gave an order to have the security around forty-year-old Yemeni national tightened following several attempts that were made by the accused to flee from police custody.
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WINDHOEK - Bertus Koch, the DRC settlement of Swakopmund resident accused of child trafficking and rape, alternatively committing an immoral act with a child under the age of 16 was on Tuesday convicted on the trafficking count, acquitted on the rape charge, but convicted on the alternative charge by High Court Judge President and Deputy Chief Justice Petrus Damaseb.
WIDHOEK - Paulina Dreyers, a Windhoek resident accused of stabbing to death her cousin over a maize meal earlier this year, wants to be considered for bail.
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WINDHOEK – Jesaja Boois, 43, a resident of Tses in the Keetmanshoop district was on Monday sentenced to life imprisonment on a conviction of murder, 20 years on a conviction rape, one year on a conviction of assault by threat and one year in jail on a conviction of defeating or attempting to defeat the course of justice by the Windhoek High Court.
Video: Jesaja Boois was sentenced to life imprisonment.
ONGWEDIVA - Police in Ohangwena Region have identified the four victims who perished in an accident after two vehicles collided at Eembidi village on Monday.
WINDHOEK - Gerald Henly Matlata, 34, the man who had the southern town of Mariental in a grip of fear for three years was yesterday sentenced to life in prison on convictions of murder, rape, robbery, housebreaking with intent to rob and robbery, theft and housebreaking with intent to rape and rape.
WINDHOEK - The bail hearing of a man who stands accused of shooting his girlfriend and mother to his children to death at their shared apartment could not proceed as scheduled yesterday.
WINDHOEK - Acting Windhoek High Court Judge Johanna Salionga yesterday afternoon refused an application by the State funded lawyers for the accused in the murder for hire trial in the Windhoek High Court without giving any reasons. Judge Salionga only read the order dismissing the application and indicated she will present her reasons today at 09h00.
Video: Judge dismisses application for leave to appeal recusal refusal
Video: Cops nab suspected serial burglars
WINDHOEK – Two men found themselves in custody on Friday after the court sentenced them to serve 24 months behind bars for bribing a police investigating officer this month in Windhoek.
WINDHOEK - The Windhoek City Police yesterday caught two suspected robbers hiding in bushes nearby a construction site in the area of Cimbebasia.
WINDHOEK - Former CEO of the Roads Contractor Company (RCC), Kelly Nghixulifa has requested the Windhoek High Court Judge Christi Liebenberg to quash counts 1, 6, 9 and 10 in the indictment he faces in relation to charges of fraud and contravening the ACC Act.
ONGWEDIVA - The 14-year-old alleged to have sodomised a five-year-old boy at an informal settlement in Oshakati was denied bail when he made a brief in-camera appearance in court.
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WINDHOEK - The start-stop, stop-start murder trial of two men accused of brutally killing and raping a Swakopmund resident in September 2005 is drawing to a close after the defence counsels indicated they are closing their cases in the Windhoek High Court yesterday.
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WINDHOEK - Morne Mouton, a man on trial for the death of two civilians and Windhoek City Police officer has denied allegations that he was drunk the night of the fatal incident that prematurely cut short three innocent lives.
WINDHOEK - The state has called on the court to give the two Chinese nationals four years imprisonment for bribing a police officer.
KEETMANSHOOP - A 37-year-old man allegedly killed his 29-year-old ex-girlfriend at farm Rossenhoff in the Gibeon district on Tuesday before committing suicide.
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WINDHOEK – Guilty was the verdict on all eight charges that Walvis Bay resident Piet Kondjele Nakanene faced in the Windhoek High Court, as handed down by Judge Dinnah Usiku yesterday.
WINDHOEK - Windhoek High Court Judge Alfred Siboleka on Monday dismissed an application by Stockley Kauejao, 43, and Afas Kamutjemo, 40, for their discharge on the murder charges they face after the State closed its case.
OSHAKATI – “It was painful and I was screaming, but he told me to keep quiet or else he would beat me,” a five-year-old boy from one of Oshakati’s informal settlements described the chilling details of the day he was allegedly sodomised by an older boy from the same location.
WINDHOEK - The Windhoek Magistrate’s Court on Friday convicted two men after they admitted guilt for offering a bribe to a police investigating officer.
WINDHOEK - A nineteen-year-old woman is in police custody after she allegedly fatally stabbed her 25-year-old boyfriend to death in Okuryangava on Friday.
WINDHOEK - The lengthy murder trial of three City Police cops accused of beating a 17-year-old suspect to death stalled yesterday when the State said it will request the Supreme Court to clear up a conundrum it faces.
WINDHOEK - The trial of 15 men and a woman who were arrested in 2014 accused of possessing fake qualifications attained from bogus colleges in Zimbabwe has been stood down for now.
WINDHOEK - An Otjiwarongo man who admitted in the Windhoek High Court yesterday that he hacked his girlfriend 45 times on her head, neck and face, said he committed the gruesome deed because the deceased refused to break up with him despite her having another boyfriend.
WINDHOEK - State Advocate Marthino Olivier last Friday requested the Windhoek High Court Judge Christi Liebenberg to send Gerald Henly Matlata, 34, to prison for the rest of his life on convictions of murder, rape, robbery, housebreaking with intent to rob and robbery, theft and housebreaking.
RUNDU - Linus Tuzeerendo Neumbo,59, of Neumbo Private Investigators Agency who became popular when he was hired by the Rundu Town Council last year to probe allegations of corruption within the council, appeared on Thursday in the Rundu Magistrate’s Court on a charge of forgery.
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WINDHOEK - The bail hearing of Johannes Neuaka, who stands accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and mother of his child will resume today.
WINDHOEK - Mental evaluation for a woman who stands accused of killing her 70-year-old lover is yet to be conducted nearly five months after the incident.
WINDHOEK - The reward for information leading to the arrest of the perpetrator(s) in the murder of nine-year-old Cheryl Avihe Ujaha was increased to N$100 000.
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WINDHOEK - “For the rest of my life I will always carry hatred towards you until the day I know you are in the grave,” a very emotional woman, who may not be named to protect her identity, told the man accused of sexually violating her in 2012 at his court hearing yesterday.
WINDHOEK - The trial of a woman accused of fatally stabbing her live-in boyfriend 17 times in 2009 will only resume in 2019. Laimi Goagoses, 35, has been on trial on a charge of murder for the death of her boyfriend, Horst Gunther Radecke, 57. Radecke lost his life in the attack that took place on December 23, 2009 along Tempel Street, Dolam in Katutura.
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OSHAKATI - Judgment in the Ohangwena double-murder in which 48-year-old Mathias Kalunga is on trial for the alleged murder of his wife and her alleged lover has been postponed.
WINDHOEK – A man who was apparently inebriated after an all-day drinking session was seriously injured after he was allegedly stabbed by his own brother whom he provoked in Khomasdal.
WINDHOEK - Tuhemwe Dinyando, 30, a former security guard who has been in custody for allegedly killing a 32-year-old woman whose corpse was discovered near the University of Namibia’s (Unam) main campus will take the stand for his formal bail hearing in Windhoek Magistrate’s Court.
WINDHOEK – State Advocate Ethel Ndlovu yesterday morning asked Windhoek High Court Judge Nate Ndauendapo to remove Jesaja Boois from society for a very long time as he is clearly a danger who cannot be let loose on innocent members of society.
WINDHOEK - Chief Justice, Peter Shivute has denied a petition from eight persons still facing charges of high treason, murder, attempted murder, sedition, public violence, and illegal importation of weapons and ammunition directed at him to appeal a decision by Acting High Court Judge Petrus Unengu on the jurisdiction of the Namibian High Court to try them.
WINDHOEK - The court refused to relax bail conditions of three men accused of defrauding the Office of the Judiciary of over N$400,000 in a witness fees scam.
WALVIS BAY - State prosecutor for the N$206 million cocaine case, Salmon Kanyemba says lawyer Sisa Namandje’s argument in the state’s case is weak, Namandje argued the evidence collected during the arrest of Grant Noble and Dinath Azahr is baseless and will be inadmissible during the trial.
WINDHOEK - Windhoek High Court Judge Thomas Masuku says he will deliver his judgment in the urgent application Finance Minister, Calle Schlettwein and the Namibia National Reinsurance Corporation (NamibRe) launched to compel eight insurance companies to re-insure with NamibRe according to the NamibRe Act 22 of 1998 on September 20 after listening to two days of arguments.
WINDHOEK - Twelve people lost their lives over the past weekend of murders, road accidents and suicides across the country, including the gruesome death of a 21-year-old who died because of a cellphone.
WINDHOEK – The Windhoek Regional Court has held over the warrant of arrest for the woman who stands accused of strangling her one-month-old baby to death.
WINDHOEK – A four-year-old boy survived what his mother described as an attempted kidnap of her son at a shop in Dorado Park after a man allegedly tried to walk away with the boy on Thursday last week.
The Katutura Magistrate’s Court ordered the provisional release from custody of an Angolan nabbed with cocaine at Hosea Kutako International Airport (HKIA) in February.
While Namibia is still in shock over the brutal murder and mutilation of Cheryl Avihe Ujaha whose partial remains were discovered
Three men accused of an armed robbery at Shoprite U-save, Katutura early this year are scheduled to stand trial in the Katutura Magistrate’s Court in December.
This week’s CCTV footage - provided by the Windhoek City Police - shows suspected robbers hiding in bushes.
A resident of Tses in the Keetmanshoop District convicted on one count of murder, one count of rape, one count of defeating
The bail hearing of Erastus Heita, who stands accused of gunning down his live-in girlfriend in their shared flat in Otjomuise late last year, is expected to resume in September.
A man who has been in custody for allegedly killing his brother following a dispute over a N$20 debt is expected to tender his preliminary plea in October.
Domestic violence has once again claimed the life of a 26-year-old woman who was stabbed to death with a spear on Saturday in Karibib, Erongo Region.
WINDHOEK - Windhoek High Court Judge Naomi Shivute on Tuesday dismissed an application by South African national Wilhelm (Wimpie) Derick February, 39, that murder and rape charges against him be dismissed for lack of evidence.
KHORIXAS - Four suspects accused of illegally slaughtering a heifer worth N$8000 were denied bail when they appeared in court early this week. The heifer belongs to a veteran teacher Sakarias Goamub.
WINDHOEK – A former Namibian Defence Force (NDF) soldier claims a bullet accidentally went off while showing his ex-girlfriend a firearm that he had picked up in their yard.
WINDHOEK - A Windhoek resident found himself in police custody following allegations that he defrauded the University of Science and Technology (NUST) an amount of N$1.2 million.
WINDHOEK - Legal old-hand Johan van Vuuren was yesterday appointed as the new State funded legal representative for Rachel Rittmann, 47, the Gobabis woman accused of plotting along with her boyfriend to kill her husband in August 2013.
WINDHOEK - Windhoek resident Erastus Heita has denied intentionally shooting to death his girlfriend and mother of his two children in the early hours of October 1 last year.
RUNDU - The case of Jesaya Gabriel Chuhunda, 20, accused of bludgeoning to death five family members on July 1, was postponed to November 23, and he will remain in police custody as the court subsequently denied him bail due to the seriousness of the crime.
WINDHOEK - A resident of the Havana settlement of Windhoek who was convicted of murder with direct intent and robbery with aggravating circumstances for slitting the throat of his former girlfriend and mother of his daughter, before he robbed her and her new boyfriend of a gas stove, still maintains he did not commit the dastardly deed.
WINDHOEK - Windhoek Magistrate’s Court released one of four people who stand accused of the murder of Alex Maluli Mushe early last year.
RUNDU - The Namibian Police in Rundu were called to a gruesome crime scene at Gove village some 31 km east of Rundu along the Rundu-Divundu gravel road that runs parallel to the Kavango River where a man had just been killed with a sharp unidentified object in the early hours of Thursday.
WINDHOEK – Tears of joy and sorrows, along with hugs and kisses, were the order of the day when three people convicted of 513 counts of fraud, contravening the Banking Institutions Act and Contravening the Companies Act were sentenced to different terms of imprisonment and fines yesterday by Windhoek High Court Judge Alfred Siboleka.
Four suspects were arrested yesterday after allegedly stealing 40 bags of cement valued at N$8500.00.
KAYIRA-YIRA - The police in Kavango West have requested the assistance from members of the public, who may perhaps have some information that could help to apprehend the culprit suspected to have aborted and abandoned her infant in the bushes of Kayira-yira village in Kavango West.
WALVIS BAY - The bail application for the two suspects implicated in the N$206 million cocaine case is set to commence today in the Walvis Bay Magistrate’s Court.
WINDHOEK - The police have arrested a 22-year-old woman suspected of stabbing her boyfriend to death at Okombahe on Saturday.
WINDHOEK - Windhoek resident Jamee Kahuure last Friday walked out of Katutura Magistrate’s Court a free woman after the court provisionally withdrew the murder charge against her, related to the death of her friend.
ONGWEDIVA – The suspect arraigned for the murder of his girlfriend over the weekend at Onandjaba settlement in Okalongo Constituency has two pending cases of assault against two other victims, police confirmed.
WINDHOEK - Law enforcement agencies have recorded a total of 611 cases of domestic violence during the past three months with females being the majority of complainants.
WINDHOEK - DNA expert, Maryn Swart, yesterday revealed to Judge Naomi Shivute in the Windhoek Court the DNA she found on the knife that ended the life of Getrud Vaanda Tjihuiko was predominantly hers with the accused in the matter, Elvis Mieze, 44 contributing only a minimal portion.
WINDHOEK - The trial of Rodney Ricardo Rooi accused of murdering his 19-year-old girlfriend and mother of his child, Brigitta Smith, by stabbing her seven times in the chest for refusing to spend the night with him was postponed to April next year by the Windhoek High Court.
WINDHOEK - Katutura Magistrate’s Court provisionally withdrew a case of murder against a Windhoek resident who stood accused of killing Johannes Jetta in 2016.
WINDHOEK - The Windhoek High Court returned the occupancy rights of the Purros Community Campsite and Bush Lodge to the Purros Conservancy Committee after the latter successfully lodged an urgent application to restore their undisturbed and peaceful possession of the premises situated at Purros village.
WINDHOEK - Windhoek High Court temporarily set aside settlement agreement that would have seen a 68-year-old woman evicted from a house that has been her home for 26 years.
WINDHOEK - A former senior police officer of the Namibian Police Force, accused of shooting to death a teenager, yesterday claimed the fatal shot he fired happened during a struggle for the gun. He said this when he testified in his own defence in the Windhoek High Court at the Windhoek Prison Facility before Judge Dinah Usiku.
WINDHOEK - The wife of a man accused of beating a woman to death in Windhoek’s Otjomuise location testified in her husband’s defence yesterday in the Windhoek High Court before Judge Alfred Siboleka. Margaret Gawaxab confirmed what Elwen Gawaxab has been saying through his privately funded lawyer, Mbanga Siyomunji, that he had on his work clothes, a green trouser and shirt when he left their house the previous evening and that he still had the same clothes on when he arrived home early the next morning, contrary to the evidence of State witnesses that he had put on blue jeans and a white shirt.
WINDHOEK - The Namibian Police at Otavi have requested members of the public to help them trace the whereabouts of a 24-year-old woman whom they want to question on an incident related to N$46 000 worth of stock and hard cash.
WINDHOEK – The Katutura Magistrate’s Court could not proceed with the murder case of a 20-year-old woman on trial for allegedly killing her pensioner lover in February. The hearing failed to take place because the docket was not available.
OMUTHIYA - Three separate cases of rape involving minors were reported to the Oshikoto police in one week, and only one of the suspects has so far been arrested while the other two are still at large, although their identities are known to the police.
WINDHOEK - The bail hearing of Erastus Heita, a Windhoek resident accused of gunning down the mother of his children and girlfriend in Otjomuise last year has been postponed.
WINDHOEK – The Katutura Magistrate’s Court has issued a warrant for the arrest of man accused of the intentional killing of Tjaimi Ehrenfryd Ehrenst in 2016.
SWAKOPMUND - Ex-convict Fanie Nanub is seeking justice for spending almost a decade more than his initial sentence in prison.
WINDHOEK - The Windhoek High Court has indemnified a garage accused of failing to carry out the instructions of a client and in addition granted it an amount of N$30,000 for partial repairs undertaken on a vehicle of an Angolan after the latter cancelled the work contract.
