Former guards acquitted for teen’s death
Former security guards, who were on trial for allegedly shooting and killing an Acacia student nearly six years ago, were found not guilty by the Windhoek Regional Court yesterday.
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Former security guards, who were on trial for allegedly shooting and killing an Acacia student nearly six years ago, were found not guilty by the Windhoek Regional Court yesterday.
The Namibia Police Force arrested and charged 16 suspects on charges of rhino or elephant poaching and conspiracy of elephant poaching last week.
The trial of a 23-year-old man accused of causing the death of two civilians and Windhoek City Police officer in 2015 could not conclude as scheduled due to strict measures imposed during the current lockdown.
A 23-year-old man who borrowed his neighbour’s shotgun to kill his dog allegedly shot himself on Saturday afternoon at Ombugayamunyoko village in Oshana region. “It is alleged that Naftal Junias Shukifeni (23) shot himself with the neighbour’s shotgun after he allegedly borrowed the gun to go kill his dog,’’ stated the weekly crime report issued this week.
Local lawyer Mbanga Siyomunji on Monday convinced Windhoek magistrate Ivan Gawanab to drastically reduce the bail amount the State suggested for Simon Nangolo down from N$50 000 to N$5 000 after the State removed their initial objection to bail.
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OMUTHIYA – One of the suspected armed robbers who robbed a man of his neckless and bracelet worth N$150 000 at local bar in Tsumeb was discovered dead in a Volkswagen Golf 5 near Shell service station in Otavi.
Former Air Namibia flight crew member, who was allegedly attempting to smuggle N$5 million worth of heroin from Namibia to Germany in 2016, was convicted yesterday in the Windhoek Regional Court.
A 47-year-old Nigerian man was arrested in connection with R250 000 found in his possession at Noordoewer border post last week. He was arrested during a routine search after which the undeclared amount was found on him.
A 51-year-old man convicted in the Outapi Regional Court for defiling a seven-year-old girl had his sentence set aside by the High Court. After the act he allegedly gave the young girl an orange.
Deputy Judge President Hosea Angula this week dismissed with costs an application by Namib Mills to interdict Bokomo Namibia from using its current branding of its vetkoek flour as it is similar to that of Namib Mills.
Three Angolan women, caught with over N$2.2 million in foreign currencies, have denied any wrongdoing when they took the stand in the Katutura Magistrate’s Court.
A former Agribusdev manager, who was stationed at Ndonga Linena Irrigation project, was denied bail last Friday after appearing in the Rundu Magistrate’s Court on allegations of corruption having embezzled over N$ 1 million.
A five and half month puppy allegedly died after it was sexually assaulted by a man, a neighbour, in the early hours of Friday morning in Windhoek. The man has since fled from his house following the incident.
WALVIS BAY – A vessel captain Vitaly Dukach was granted bail of N$100 000 last week when he made a first appearance in the Walvis Bay Magistrate’s Court for illegal fishing.
The trial of two men who are suspected of raping and killing a schoolgirl and dumping her body in the bushes in Windhoek is set to resume in the Windhoek High Court in June.
A man who was on trial for killing his pregnant girlfriend and a man who tried to defend her from him was convicted on two counts of murder in Oshakati High Court last week.
RUNDU – Two brothers who are accused of robbing a service station at Rundu last week have been denied bail during their first appearance in the local magistrate’s court. The suspects reportedly robbed the service station and stole N$386 900. They allegeldy also shot and injured a security guard before fleeing.
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A Windhoek man this week maintained his innocence in a murder case before Windhoek High Court Acting Judge Orben Sibeya. The 57-year-old Benjamin Strong, who is currently on trial, denied any involvement in the killing of Johanna Resandt (62).
WALVIS BAY – A gang of robbers believed to be responsible for a series of robberies in Omaruru is suspected to have broken into Agra where they stole items and cash with a combined value of over N$77 000.
Health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula yesterday advised Namibians, particularly government officials, to avoid face-to-face meetings with international participants and to rather use information technology (ICT) to help stop the spread of coronavirus.
WALVIS BAY – A Walvis Bay family is reeling in shock after their bubbly daughter, Frieda Dhiginina Mapowe (15) allegedly hanged herself in their home. She was an eighth grader.
The Oshakati High Court convicted the man who was on trial for stabbing and beheading his girlfriend in 2014 at his flat in Oshakati.
The trial of a man who allegedly killed his employer in Swakopmund in August 2017 has grind to a halt as he is currently without any legal representation.
RUNDU – Kavango East police investigators are on the hunt for a gang of armed thugs who robbed and shot a security guard at Rundu’s Engen service station, located at the roundabout along Eugene Kakukuru main road, where the unknown criminals stole N$386 900 in cash and fled.
Two of the three men charged with the brutal murder of elderly farmers Gielam Botha (78) and his 80-year-old wife Susara Aletta (80) at their farm Lindeshof near Köes in the Keetmanshoop District want the Windhoek High Court to release them on bail.
Windhoek High Court Judge Christie Liebenberg yesterday acquitted the only woman accused in the murder and robbery trial of three people charged with killing elderly farmer, Willem Cornelius de Klerk, aged 71 at Farm Villa Rosa in the Usakos District on all charges.
A group of Angolan women who were caught with more than N$2.2 million at Hosea Kutako International Airport (HKIA) late last year are scheduled to tender their preliminary plea on Friday.
The Windhoek Regional Court cancelled the warrant of arrest against one of the men standing trial for the alleged murder of an Acacia High School learner, who was killed nearly six years ago.
The case of a woman, accused of having killed her ex-lover in 2018, was struck off the judicial roll of Katutura Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday because the investigation is incomplete.
Seven women are among 86 Namibians arrested for drug dealing in February and police continue to report low cases of drugs confiscated compared to the previous year.
Arrest with a warrant: An arrest should be done by any peace officer after a warrant for the arrest has been issued by a magistrate in terms of section 43 of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977.
WALVIS BAY – The Anti-Corruption Commission is suspecting more companies could have paid bribes to two employees of the Ministry of Finance attached to the Inland Revenue department at Walvis Bay.
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A Windhoek resident, accused of killing his girlfriend and mother of his then two-year-old son by stabbing her once in the chest with a knife, yesterday pleaded not guilty before High Court Judge Christie Liebenberg.
The only man jailed in the Avid saga, Nico Josea, was denied an opportunity to apply for leave to appeal his conviction and sentence yesterday by Windhoek High Court Judge Christi Liebenberg.
The trial of former Windhoek-based public prosecutor, who stands accused of illegally scrapping charges from the court system, is scheduled to start in July.
The case of a 19-year-old woman who was arrested in connection with the death of her ex-boyfriend in 2018 has come to a standstill due to the docket not being available at court for proceedings.
A farmworker, who was found guilty of killing his employer at a farm in the Outjo area nearly three years ago, was yesterday sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment.
The prosecutor general has decided to arraign a woman who is accused of killing her 70-year-old boyfriend by stabbing him multiple times nearly two years ago.
A teenage girl who was arrested for dumping her dead infant after giving birth will stand trial for the alleged crime in September in the Katutura Magistrate’s Court.
A 50-year-old man who last year confessed to abducting and sexually violating a minor was remanded in police custody, as the police are yet to obtain a statement from the victim.
A case of a 32-year-old woman who is accused of stabbing her live-in boyfriend to death last year is still on the court roll for further police investigations.
A man who was arrested for sexually violating his girlfriend’s daughter between 2015 and 2019 has denied any wrongdoing.
The police are yet to complete their investigations into the case of Namibia Qualifications Authority CEO Frans Gertze, who allegedly shot his wife six times at their Pionierspark home last year.
ONGWEDIVA – The 29-year-old Naholo Shihafeleni who was last week nabbed whilst attempting to smuggle unauthorised pharmaceutical products, including medicine was denied bail in the Outapi Magistrate’s Court on Friday.
WALVIS BAY - A 29-year-old woman is expected to make her first appearance this week in the Walvis Bay Magistrate’s Court on a charge of murder and concealment of birth after she allegedly killed her newborn baby.
ONGWEDIVA – The police in Omusati region on Wednesday afternoon arrested a 29-year-old male nurse stationed at Odimbwa clinic who had unauthorised pharmaceutical products including medicine in his possession.
RUNDU – A French couple was robbed of N$75 000 outside Rundu at Kambowo village along the Trans-Caprivi Highway.
WALVIS BAY – Two taxation officers at the Ministry of Finance, Inland Revenue at Walvis Bay were denied bail yesterday morning following their arrest on Monday afternoon for allegedly soliciting bribe of N$100 000 from a taxpayer.
Oshakati High Court Judge Johanna Salionga sentenced a man convicted of killing his uncle, by hitting him with rocks, to 20 years in jail last week.
Two security guards who at the weekend allegedly stole two vehicles from the Opuwo government garage, which they were manning, have been arrested. The two guards are aged 22 and 29.
The trial of former Windhoek-based prosecutor, accused of illegally scrapping charges from the court system, could not proceed as scheduled in the regional court after one of the accused failed to show up.
Windhoek High Court acting judge Orben Sibeya last week dismissed an application for discharge in terms of Section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Act on two charges of assault and one count of defeating or obstructing the course of justice by murder accused Benjamin Strong.
A man who was arrested last week in connection to the death of a woman who collapsed at the Windhoek police station is scheduled to appear in court for bail consideration today.
A former state prosecutor who was arrested for allegedly illegally scrapping charges from the court system will be tried today.
A group of young people, who were arrested in Windhoek in connection with the killing a 27-year-old Congolese refugee in June 2018, walked out of Katutura Magistrate’s Court as free men and women after the court struck their case from the roll last week.
Oshakati High Court Judge Herman January sentenced a man convicted of killing his former girlfriend by stabbing her 11 times with a knife to 30 years in prison late last week.
ONGWEDIVA - The police in Omusati region are seeking public assistance to aid in tracing the mother of a foetus that was discovered at the Outapi Town Council dumping site on Monday afternoon.
The Katutura Magistrate’s Court yesterday refused to provisionally withdraw a case against a woman who stands accused of killing her neighbour over alcohol in 2018.
Two men who were arrested last week in connection to the death of a 45-year-old man whose body was found in Windhoek’s Suiderhof suburb have approached the court with the hope of being released on bail.
A group consisting of two brothers and two friends, who are accused of robbing and killing a man in Dorado Park nearly three years ago, will be tried in March.
A man who was arrested last year on suspicion that he robs and prey on lone women in Windhoek’s Goreangab is set to stand trial in August in the Katutura Magistrate’s Court.
The Katutura Magistrate’s Court has issued a final postponement to the investigating officer dealing with the case of three Angolan women who were caught with more than N$2.2 million in cash at the Hosea Kutako International Airport (HKIA) in December last year in order to conclude investigations in the matter.
The police are yet to conclude their investigations into the case of an officer of the Namibian Defence Force (NDF) who is accused of shooting and killing a 32-year-old civilian last year.
Samherji, the Icelandic company at the centre of the ‘Fishrot’ scandal, said it is pleased to see the case in which fishing vessel Heinaste skipper Arngrímur Brynjólfsson being fined N$950 000 for illegal fishing coming to its conclusion.
WALVIS BAY – The Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) said it would table a motion to summon Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) director general Paulus Noa to explain why Namibians implicated in the Fishrot saga had their assets frozen, while foreigners allegedly involved have free range.
The Namibian Police drug law enforcement unit confiscated illicit drugs worth N$294 800 in January this year, compared to over N$1.8 million worth of drugs seized during the same period in 2019.
The Windhoek Regional Court has issued a subpoena against a man who was initially arrested in connection to N$5 million worth of heroin that was found at the Hosea Kutako International Airport in 2016.
The man convicted of the brutal rape and murder of a 13-year-old Henties Bay girl in 2014 was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday by Windhoek High Court acting Judge Alfred Siboleka.
After a day of oral arguments in the High Court yesterday, Judge Thomas Masuku is set to deliver judgement on the urgent application of the incarcerated former Cabinet ministers and their co-accused on 27 February.
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Russian national Alexander Krylov and his Namibian counterpart Anna Katrina Engelbrecht pleaded not guilty to 42 counts of rape and child trafficking in addition to a charge of supplying minors with cigarettes before Windhoek High Court acting Judge Claudia Claasen yesterday.
RUNDU - The three men arrested on Friday for being in possession of elephant tusks in the Mukwe constituency were granted bail of N$10 000 each when they appeared in the Rundu Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
The police in Oshana are asking for help in locating a man wanted for murder over N$20.
The prosecutor general is set to decide the fate of 42-year-old Erastus Heita, who stands accused of killing his girlfriend and mother of his children nearly two years ago in Windhoek’s Otjomuise residential area.
The court has refused bail to a 35-year-old man arrested last year for allegedly killing and burning his live-in girlfriend last September.
WALVIS BAY – The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Saturday advised Namibian authorities not to allow any shipping vessels or persons linked to the Fishrot case to leave Namibia without notifying ACC or the Namibian police.
WINDHOEK - Nine-year-old Zimbabwean-born girl, whose charred body was found in a municipal rubbish skip a week ago, was dead by the time her body was set alight, the post mortem revealed.
WINDHOEK – Fraud accused Manga Manga-Mukena, her husband Joseph and Celestino Gabriel Antonio are still waiting to hear whether the chief justice will entertain their petition to appeal the refusal of Windhoek High Court Acting Judge Kobus Miller to recuse himself from their trial.
WINDHOEK – Windhoek High Court Acting Judge Kobus Miller last Friday admitted into evidence bank records obtained from the accounts of Boykie Noa Naukosho (30), and his company Tripple N Investments after a trial within a trial to determine their admissibility.
ONGWEDIVA - The police in Oshana have arrested at least six people for dealing with pangolins in the past two weeks.
RUNDU – Three men from Kavango West region, who were arrested on 13 November last year for illegally cutting grass in Angola, are still in custody in that country.
WINDHOEK – A former employee of the Road Fund Administration (RFA) who admitted he stole N$2.4 million from the entity under false pretences
WINDHOEK – A Rehoboth resident accused of stabbing to death a man who came to the aid of the accused’s former girlfriend denied quilt.
OMUTHIYA - A 47-year-old man was killed while intervening in a panga attack at Okayele village in Oshikoto region, the police said yesterday.
ONGWEDIVA – Unknown suspects on Saturday allegedly got away with N$224 580 in cash from the University of Namibia’s Hifikepunye Pohamba campus’ finance office in Ongwediva.
WINDHOEK - A 32-year-old woman has been slapped with 10 years imprisonment for the killing of his live-in boyfriend of seven years in 2015.
ONGWEDIVA - The number of suspects arrested in connection with protected wildlife crimes in Oshana Region has increased to six in less than a week, following yet another arrest of a man caught dealing with a leopard skin.
OMUTHIYA - A man from Onandhi in the Onankali area of Oshikoto Region has been arrested for murder after allegedly burying his two-year-old son alive.
WINDHOEK – A resident of Tses in the Keetmanshoop district claimed during his plea on two murder and three attempted murder charges that he was too drunk at the time of committing the offences to remember exactly what had transpired.
ONGWEDIVA – The police in Oshana Region have in less than a week arrested five suspects in connection with protected wildlife crimes.
WINDHOEK - The Windhoek Regional Court is expected to hear the trial of five men who stand accused of a deadly armed robbery in Windhoek nearly a decade ago.
WINDHOEK - The testimony of a woman serving an eight-year prison against her former husband proved enough for Windhoek High Court Judge Christie Liebenberg to convict him on 32 counts of theft and one count of money laundering.
OMUTHIYA - The family of a University of Namibia (Unam) student who was allegedly murdered through assault during December last year in Katima Mulilo has expressed concern over the police’s handling of the matter.
OMUTHIYA - A mother of six was last week allegedly kicked to death by her boyfriend, who is also the father of her children.
WINDHOEK - The prosecutor-general is waiting for the police to complete their investigations into the case of a man who is accused of killing his brother in 2018 over a debt of N$20.
Anti-bribery protesters loot chicken farm
WINDHOEK - A 15-year-old teenager from Rehoboth, who was 14 when he committed several offences including murder, rape and arson, made his first appearance in the Windhoek High Court yesterday before Judge Christie Liebenberg.
WINDHOEK – The police have concluded their investigations into the case of a woman who is accused of fatally stabbing her 70-year-old boyfriend multiple times in 2018.
WINDHOEK - At least four people died this past weekend in car accidents involving unlicensed drivers. In one of the accidents, an unlicensed driver reportedly lost control of a Toyota pickup while trying to overtake another vehicle on the Opuwo-Kaoko Otavi gravel road in the Kunene Region.
WINDHOEK – The Namibian police recorded a sharp decline in the worth of drugs seized during the festive season compared to previous months.
WINDHOEK- A 22-year-old man was arrested and charged for allegedly raping a toddler this past Sunday at Dordabis.
WALVIS BAY - An unlicensed driver allegedly killed a man and injured two others when he crashed into a group of mechanics with a reporteldy stolen vehicle in Karibib on Friday.
WINDHOEK – The Katutura Magistrate’s Court yesterday granted a final remand to the police to conclude their investigations in the case of a teenage girl who was arrested for allegedly dumping her lifeless baby at Greenwell Matongo last year.
KAHENGE - Two men, who were found in possession of illegal animal skins, were each granted bail of N$8 000 in the Kahenge periodical court on Monday.
WINDHOEK – The trial of a former Air Namibia cabin crew member, accused of trying to smuggle N$5 million worth of heroin, has been postponed to next week for the defence’s case.
WINDHOEK - The trial of a Yemeni national, who is accused of killing a man over a million-dollar deal that turned sour in 2016, will resume next month.
WINDHOEK - A distraught mother of one of the teenage girls, accused of stabbing a 30-year-old man to death on New Year’s Day in Windhoek, said she was praying for everyone affected by the case during this difficult period.
WINDHOEK - A former farmworker who was serving 34 years for rape and murder of his stepdaughter was found dead in his cell bed at the Windhoek Central Correctional facility on Saturday.
WINDHOEK – A man who was arrested on suspicion that he robs and prey on lone women in Windhoek’s Goreangab informal settlement has been released on bail in the Katutura Magistrate’s Court.
WINDHOEK – An attempt to be released on bail by three Angolan nationals who were caught with more than N$2.2 million in cash at the Hosea Kutako International Airport (HKIA) failed after the court denied their request.
SWAKOPMUND - Namibian authorities have issued a warrant of arrest for an Austrian businessman for failing to settle a debt of N$400 000.
NKURENKURU - Two Namibian male suspects were on Friday apprehended by the police in Kavango West for being in possession of controlled wildlife products.
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WINDHOEK – The Khomas and Oshikoto regions have the highest number of reported rape cases, police chief Sebastian Ndeitunga said during the observation of International Human Rights Day earlier this week.
WINDHOEK - The Yemeni national accused of shooting and killing a Malian in Windhoek during 2016 was granted N$50 000 bail yesterday.
WINDHOEK - Three judges of the Namibian Supreme Court issued a stern warning to insurance companies that are defying the provision of the Namibia National Reinsurance Act, which compels them to reinsure a portion of their business with NamibRe that their opinion about the unconstitutionality of the Act does not make them immune to the enforcement mechanisms it provides, unless a court makes such a finding through due process of law in an appeal judgment.
WINDHOEK – Windhoek High Court Acting Judge Orben Sibeya yesterday sentenced three young men from Aminuis in the Gobabis district to sentences ranging from 10 years to seven years on convictions of rape of a 13-year-old girl.
WINDHOEK – A farm worker who admitted he caused the death of his wife but denied he intended to kill her, told the court yesterday that he “just saw black” after his wife of 21 years had told him she enjoyed sex with other men more than with him.
WINDHOEK – The investigating officer dealing with the case of a teacher who stands accused of fatally stabbing his wife multiple times and slitting her stomach in April has been instructed by the prosecutor general (PG) to further investigate the matter.
WINDHOEK – The man who was arrested on allegations he slit his ex-girlfriend’s throat with a knife and attempted to commit suicide in March is set to remain in police custody as the state still opposes his release.
WINDHOEK – The Namibian police in Omusati Region are investigating a case of reckless and or negligent driving against an ambulance driver and a nurse after a patient, who is believed to be mentally unstable, jumped from the moving vehicle while being transported to the Oshakati state hospital from Outapi.
WINDHOEK - The trial of two Namibians and 12 Angolans, accused of defrauding the government to the tune of N$210 million through false tax refunds on purchases exported from Namibia, hit a snag on Monday.
WINDHOEK - Three young men from Aminuis in the Omaheke Region will be sentenced tomorrow after acting Windhoek High Court Judge Orben Sibeya convicted them of one count of rape each this week.
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WINDHOEK - A 59-year-old businessman, who was recently convicted of murder with direct intent, has approached the registrar of the High Court to appeal his conviction.
WINDHOEK - Businessman Sakarias (Sacky) Mathias, 59, was sentenced to an effective 35 years imprisonment yesterday by Windhoek High Court Judge Naomi Shivute after he was found guilty on charges of murder, attempted murder, possession of a firearm and ammunition without a license and attempt to defeat or obstruct the course of justice.
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WINDHOEK - Two witnesses yesterday testified that a worker on Farm Houmoed between Mariental and Kalkrand, accused of killing his wife of about 20 years, did so because she was unfaithful to him and bore another man’s child.
WINDHOEK - The trial of two men accused of killing an Acacia High School learner nearly five years ago came to a standstill following the hospitalisation of one of the accused.
WINDHOEK - The trial of five men accused of the gruesome murder of Okahandja resident Marshall De Klerk nearly 11 years ago will resume in the Windhoek Regional Court in February 2020.
WINDHOEK - The wife of embattled coastal estate agent Erwin Sprangers, 58, was on Monday acquitted on all charges in the Windhoek High Court after she applied for a section 174 discharge at the state’s case and was granted one by Judge Eileen Rakow.
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WINDHOEK - Benjamin Strong, 56, on Monday pleaded not guilty to a count of murder, read with the provisions of the Domestic Violence Act, one count of attempted murder, two counts of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and one count of defeating or obstructing or attempting to defeat or obstruct the course.
WINDHOEK - A resident of the sleepy town of Aroab was convicted of murder with direct intent for stabbing his 19-year-old girlfriend to death.
WINDHOEK - A police officer reportedly shot and killed a man who allegedly attacked him with an unknown object, while resisting arrest in Katutura on Sunday evening.
RUNDU - A 29-year-old man, who was arrested on Thursday evening for assualting an off duty police officer at Rundu, was granted bail of N$3 000 when he appeared in the local magistrate’s court on Monday.
RUNDU - A 29-year-old man was arrested for attempted murder after assaulting a police officer in Rundu on Thursday evening with a snooker pool stick.
WINDHOEK- The Namibia Police Force recorded four cases of reckless and negligent driving that claimed at least two lives with several serious to moderate injuries over the past weekend.
WINDHOEK- Eighty suspects among them foreign nationals are in custody after being arrested with drugs worth N$8 million in the month of November alone, revealed the police.
KAHENGE - A case of attempted murder and discharge of firearm in public was opened against a security guard who allegedly shot a 21-year-old man outside a bar at Mahenzere village in Kavango West region on Saturday.
KEETMANSHOOP - The case of an adult male accused of fatally stabbing another man last year in Keetmanshoop has been remanded until 20 February 2020, pending the Prosecutor-General’s (PG) decision.
ONGWEDIVA - Unknown suspects robbed the Ondonga Traditional Authority of N$13 500 at gunpoint last week.
OMUTHIYA - Police officers manning the Omuntele community hall polling station arrested a 48-year-old woman after she cast her vote twice, despite being warned not to return to the voting booth.
RUNDU - Four Namibian men were arrested on Tuesday in connection with protected game.
WINDHOEK - The Windhoek Magistrate’s Court set free a security guard accused of killing and raping a woman whose corpse was discovered near the University of Namibia’s (Unam) main campus last year.
RUNDU – An armed robber who raided a local mini-shop in Rundu on Monday night is still at large and yet to be identidied.
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WINDHOEK – A City Police traffic officer accused of raping a 16-year-old girl on three different occasions this year was denied bail in the Katutura Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
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WINDHOEK – The Namibia Defence Force (NDF) soldier accused of fatally shooting a Zimbabwean taxi driver in June suffered a legal setback when the court rejected his application to have the case withdrawn.
WINDHOEK - A 39-year-old woman died after she was allegedly strangled by her boyfriend over the weekend at Oidiva village in Okongo.
WINDHOEK - Ondangwa-based magistrate Liwena Walter Mikiti pleaded not guilty to charges of insurance fraud, alternatively theft, forgery and uttering a forged document and money laundering before Windhoek High Court Acting Judge Eileen Rakow yesterday.
ONGWEDIVA - A 46-year-old man was arrested last week Thursday and charged with dealing with protected game after attempting to smuggle two pangolins into Namibia through the Oshikango border.
WINDHOEK – The inability to acquire sufficient funds resulted in the cancellation of the Kora All-Africa Music Awards in 2016.
WALVIS BAY - The accused in the cocaine bust case worth N$206 million, Grant Noble and Dinah Azhar, yesterday pleaded not guilty in the Walvis Bay Magistrate’s Court.
WINDHOEK - The bail hearing of the Yemeni national accused of executing Malian national Gamby Baya in 2016 in Kleine Kuppe is scheduled to take place next week.
WINDHOEK - A thirty-six-year-old man accused of raping his girlfriend’s daughter will enter his preliminary plea next year.
WINDHOEK- A driver and co-worker were arrested after being found in possession of cannabis worth N$6.4 million on Saturday morning on the B3 road to Grunau.
WALVIS BAY - Police in Erongo Region have arrested three suspects in connection with the death of Romeo Kangulu (28), who was robbed and killed on Saturday morning in Swakopmund.
ONGWEDIVA – The Oshana police are requesting the public’s assistance in tracing 27-year-old Simeon Paulus who bolted from the Ongwediva police holding cells.
WINDHOEK - The only female accused in the murder and robbery of elderly farmer Willem Cornelius de Klerk, aged 71, at farm Villa Rosa in the Usakos district, yesterday denied any wrongdoing in either the murder or the robbery that took place in August 2015.
WINDHOEK - A Namibia Qualification Authority (NQA) top executive is expected to appear in Windhoek Magistrate’s Court today, following an alleged failed attempt to kill his wife in the early hours of Saturday morning.
WALVIS BAY - A 28-year-old man from Swakopmund died early Saturday morning after he was robbed and attacked by a group of men at the town.
WINDHOEK - The legal trouble of a man charged with murder in the Windhoek High Court was finally resolved last Thursday when the Directorate of Legal Aid in the Ministry of Justice instructed legal representation for him.
WINDHOEK - A Swakopmund man whose indecent assault conviction was overturned with a conviction of attempted rape in the Supreme Court was slapped with a sentence more than twice the original sentence.
WINDHOEK - A 43-year-old senior official in the ministry of works has been accused of raping a 21-year-old woman, who is reportedly now pregnant. A case of rape has been opened against the suspect.
WINDHOEK - The Windhoek Regional Court yesterday sentenced a 33-year- old man who killed out of rage for apparently having been insulted to serve 18 years in jail.
WINDHOEK - The case of a woman accused of killing her live-in boyfriend earlier this year is set to continue next year in the Katutura Magistrate’s Court.
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WINDHOEK - A recent judgement by the Supreme Court of Namibia which effectively voids sentences of more than 37 and a half years imposed for serious crime, is wreaking havoc in the High Court.
WINDHOEK - Ninety-two suspects were arrested in the period 1 – 31 October 2019 in connection with illegal possession of drugs.
WINDHOEK - A Karibib resident accused of stabbing his former girlfriend to death with a spear has turned around and accused the sister of the deceased for the brutal murder.
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WINDHOEK – Two men who are being tried for allegedly trying to steal N$1.1 million from Air Namibia denied any wrongdoing at the start of their trial yesterday in the Windhoek Regional Court.
WINDHOEK – Four men accused of having a hand in the death of Alex Maluli Mushe in April 2017 will stand trial in the Windhoek Regional Court in 2020.
WALVIS BAY - A pastor of the Holy Ghost Fire Ministry in Walvis Bay is facing charges of kidnapping after he allegedly locked up a minor for a week before taking her to Windhoek.
WINDHOEK - A young man from Leonardville, who was only 17 years old when he slit the throat of his two-month pregnant girlfriend, was sentenced to an effective 30 years in jail this week by Windhoek High Court Acting Judge Kobus Miller.
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WINDHOEK - State prosecutor Felisitas Sikerete-Vendura this week asked High Court Judge Naomi Shivute to sentence a woman convicted of luring two underage girls from a village in northern Namibia under false promises of employment and then selling them into sexual slavery, to an effective 25 years in jail.
OMUTHIYAGWIIPUNDI – A husband allegedly shot and killed his wife following an argument before taking his own life yesterday morning at Olifu village in the Oshikoto region.
Rundu – Two cases of rape were reported to the Rundu police this past weekend. Deputy Commissioner Bonifatius Kanyetu has called on women to be extra vigilant when socialising at night clubs and other drinking spots.
WINDHOEK - The Windhoek High Court has extended the suspension of a Windhoek-based lawyer on allegations that he mismanaged N$560 000 entrusted to him in a trust by his clients.
ONGWEDIVA - A scheme to rob people of their goods in exchange for jobs or goods is back on the cards, this time, a young woman was robbed off her handbag with her cellphone as well as goods she had just bought.
WINDHOEK - The Windhoek Regional Court has sent out a deterrent message to men instigating GBV by sentencing a man to 15 years imprisonment for attempting to kill her former lover of five years and mother to his child in 2016.
SWAKOPMUND - A teacher is among two suspects arrested at the coast for allegedly sexually violating underage children, bringing into question the safety of some care centres that should be a safe haven for children.
WALVIS BAY - Police in Omaruru have arrested three men in Omaruru for the murder and kidnapping following the death of a stock theft suspect at the town.
WINDHOEK - The prosecutor general has sent back to the police investigator the docket of a man accused of killing his brother last year over a debt of N$20.
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WINDHOEK - The murder as well as the discharging of a firearm in public trial of commissioner for refugees in Namibia Likius Valombola, 56, will start on 22 June next year before Windhoek High Court Acting Judge Claudia Claasen.
WINDHOEK – The Windhoek City Police on Wednesday arrested a 35-year-old Angolan national for being in possession of suspected stolen laptops and cellphones.
ONGWEDIVA - The Oshakati high court this week sentenced Fransisco Gerson Joao to an effective 30 years imprisonment for the direct murder of his girlfriend.
WINDHOEK - A Former Air Namibia cabin crew member currently being tried for attempting to smuggle N$5 million worth of heroin is set to get new trial dates after his trial came to a standstill in Windhoek regional court.
WINDHOEK - The trial of a woman accused of ending the life of her live-in boyfriend by stabbing him 17-times has reached its final stages as closing arguments will be heard in Windhoek Regional Court in three weeks’ time.
WINDHOEK - A 32-year old man who allegedly defiled four little girls between April and September 2019 at Tutaleni in Walvis Bay was arrested and has appeared in court.
RUNDU - The unlicensed motorist whose car reportedly bumped and killed two cyclists on the Trans Caprivi-Highway on Sunday evening was denied bail when he made his first court appearance on Tuesday.
WINDHOEK – Windhoek High Court Judge Christi Liebenberg yesterday said that American Marcus Thomas, who is accused of the assassin-like murder of Andre Heckmair in Windhoek in 2011, has reached the end of the rope in his quest to delay his trial.
ONDANGWA - The police in Oshana at the end of last week arrested four accused for stock theft of five cattle.
WINDHOEK - An inmate at Omuthiya police holding cells is accused of having stabbed a fellow inmate with a screwdriver in the neck on Saturday afternoon.
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WINDHOEK – Windhoek High Court Judge Christi Liebenberg yesterday granted leave to local lawyer, Titus Ipumbu, to withdraw as the legal representative of American Marcus Thomas who is accused of the assassin-like murder of Andre Heckmair in Windhoek in 2011.
WINDHOEK – The court should forsake the element of mercy in sentencing persons convicted of sexually abusing children, said magistrate Ileni Velikoshi when imposing a 17-year imprisonment term on a man who raped a five-year-old girl in 2015 at Havana, Katutura, Windhoek.
WINDHOEK - A 40-year-old Yemen national currently in police custody on suspicion he carried out a gangster-style execution of Malian national Gamby Baya in 2016 in Kleine Kuppe wants the court to release him on bail.
RUNDU - A 22-year-old unlicensed motorist bumped and killed two people who were travelling on a bicycle on the Trans Caprivi-Highway where it passes through Rundu.
WINDHOEK - Justice minister Sacky Shanghala has labelled the case before the Windhoek High Court involving the Namibia Tourism Board (NTB), which is seeking to recover over N$23 million from the organisers of the Kora All-Africa Music Awards, as a waste of time.
WINDHOEK – The trial of a Yemeni national, who is accused of assassinating Malian Gamby Baya in 2016, is expected to start in the Windhoek Regional Court this morning.
WINDHOEK – The prosecutor-general has requested the police to carry out further investigations into the matter of a man who stands accused of killing his brother over a debt of N$20.
WINDHOEK – A young woman who was arrested for allegedly dumping her lifeless baby at Greenwell Matongo is yet to attain legal representation in her case.
WINDHOEK - Laboratory results in the case of a former primary school teacher, who is accused of stabbing his wife to death, are still outstanding.
WINDHOEK - A former Windhoek magistrate who is accused of raping two women suffered another legal blow when an application for the bail record in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court to not be admitted into evidence in his new bail hearing in the High Court was dismissed on Monday.
WINDHOEK - The case of a 20-year-old woman who is accused of having killed her ex-lover last year is set to proceed in 2020 after the police failed to complete their investigations on time.
WINDHOEK – The Namibian police reported six cases of rape this past weekend, with one matter involving a nine-year-old accused of raping fellow minors.
WINDHOEK – The prosecutor-general has sent back the docket of a 42-year-old man, who is accused of killing his girlfriend, for further investigations.
WINDHOEK - Twenty Namibian male police officers from Khomas region alone have been arrested for corruption since May this year.
WINDHOEK - A man who posed as a taxi driver is on the run after reportedly raping a grade 12 learner in
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WINDHOEK - High Court Acting Judge Kobus Miller on Friday convicted a 21-year-old man on a charge of murder read with the provisions of the Combating of Domestic Violence Act, but acquitted him on a charge of
WINDHOEK - Windhoek High Court Judge Naomi Shivute this week said that Sakarias (Sacky) Mathias, 59, did not act in self-defence when he fired a shot that fatally wounded a 21-year-old girl at a bar in
WINDHOEK - High Court Acting Judge Kobus Miller indicated Tuesday that he would deliver his judgement in the murder trial of 21-year-old David Elrico Kasupi tomorrow after hearing oral submissions
SWAKOPMUND – A Swakopmund woman committed suicide by hanging herself on Sunday evening in Mahetago suburb at the town shortly after informing her husband she was moving out. The woman allegedly
WINDHOEK - The fraud case of former Multichoice Namibia marketing executive, Manga Nawa-Mukena, 37, her husband Joseph Mukena, 43 and their friend Celestino Gabriel Antonio, 37 was put back on the
ONGWEDIVA - A two-year-old boy is alleged to have died after consuming unknown alcoholic beverage at the end of last week.
WINDHOEK- Local forex trader and self-proclaimed financial guru Michael Amushelelo and his business partner Gregory Cloete are expected to appear in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court today, following their
WALVIS BAY – Two tourists who came to Namibia last week on a trophy hunting mission lost their weapons and other valuable items worth more than N$400 000 on Thursday evening during a housebreaking, in
WINDHOEK – The psychiatric assessment report of a woman accused of having fatally stabbed her live-in boyfriend 17 times in 2009 is now ready.
WINDHOEK - The Katutura Magistrate’s Court gave a final remand for the prosecutor general to pronounce herself in the matter of a woman who is accused of stabbing her 70-year-old boyfriend multiple times to death
WINDHOEK – Windhoek High Court Acting Judge Orben Sibeya yesterday made short work of dismissing an application for discharge in terms of section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Act by the alleged killer of 71-
WINDHOEK – Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku in agreement with Acting Judge Kobus Miller on Tuesday set aside a sentence of eight years meted out for a conviction of murder with direct intent and
WINDHOEK - The trial of Affirmative Repositioning (AR) land activist Dimbulukeni ‘Dee’ Nauyoma is set to start in Katutura Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
WINDHOEK - A taxi driver who allegedly killed his former girlfriend after she dumped him via SMS was informed on Monday his trial is set to start before another judge.
WINDHOEK – The Prosecutor General (PG) is set to decide the fate of a security guard who is currently in custody for allegedly raping and killing a 31-year-old woman whose body was dumped near the University of
SWAKOPMUND - A couple was arrested on Saturday in Omaruru in the Erongo Region after police found their daughter unresponsive early Saturday morning at the town.
WINDHOEK - A 36-year-old mother was arrested for stabbing her three-year-old daughter twice on the back with a knife on Saturday at Keetmanshoop.
WINDHOEK - A woman who allegedly butchered to death her live-in boyfriend in Katutura in May was granted bail when she made an appearance in the Katutura Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
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WINDHOEK – Windhoek High Court Judge Nate Ndauendapo on Friday again postponed the case of
WINDHOEK – The case involving 10 people, who were arrested in connection with the death of a 27-year-old
WINDHOEK - A detective sergeant of the Namibian Police was sentenced to two years imprisonment on a
WINDHOEK - City Police chief Abraham Kanime says they are prepared to convince the courts to close the
WINDHOEK - The trial of the two American citizens accused of the assassin-like-murder of Andre
RUNDU - An armed robber who raided a local mini shop “Ginos” in Rundu on Monday night is still at large
WINDHOEK – A group currently on trial for the murder of Okahandja resident Marshall de Klerk nearly a
WINDHOEK – A Mariental resident who admitted to having fatally stabbed his girlfriend multiple times with a knife two years ago, was sentenced to 29 years imprisonment yesterday in Windhoek High Court.
WINDHOEK – Nearly 11 years after the gruesome murder of Okahandja resident Marshall de Klerk, five men are expected to stand trial for his death in Windhoek Regional Court tomorrow.
WINDHOEK – The Windhoek Regional Court released on bail a woman who was in police custody on allegations that she stabbed her live-in boyfriend to death in 2009.
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WINDHOEK – One of the American nationals currently on trial in the Windhoek High Court suffered another
WALVIS BAY – Heavily guarded by the Special Reserve Force, police constable Herman Abed, 31, who
WINDHOEK – A Windhoek resident who stands accused of killing her neighbour over alcohol last year
WINDHOEK – The 35-year-old man who killed and burned his live-in girlfriend is still on the run, the Khomas
WALVIS BAY – Three men who have been in custody following their arrest for trying to sell elephant tusks to undercover police officers in Walvis Bay were granted bail of N$30 000 bail each on Friday.
ONGWEDIVA - The Oshakati High Court on Thursday sentenced 27-year-old Mukonka Ambrosius Haingura to 21 years for the death of his father.
ONGWEDIVA - The Oshakati High Court yesterday slapped 38-year-old Simon Nambuli with a life sentence and an additional 75 years for eight charges ranging from rape, assault, as well as defeating or obstructing the course of Justice.
WINDHOEK – A security guard was arrested after he allegedly used a gun to silence a woman with whom he had sex for money at Ongwediva last Saturday.
OMUTHIYA – A 33-year-old Nigerian immigrant’s luck was short-lived when he attempted to marry his alleged Namibian girlfriend Renathe Eichas at Grootfontein Magistrate’s Court on August 30.
WINDHOEK - Namibian Women Lawyers Association chairperson Ruth Herunga called on the police to allocate cases of sexual violence to trained policer officers who can treat victim cases with the sensitivity
WINDHOEK – A 32-year-old inmate at the Lüderitz police station cells committed suicide by hanging herself with a piece of cloth.
WINDHOEK - The 36-year-old man accused of repeatedly raping his teen stepdaughter for nearly four years was denied bail in Windhoek Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
WINDHOEK – The Windhoek High Court is set to try a former Namibian Defence Force (NDF) paramedic who is accused of gunning down his ex-girlfriend and mother of his three-year-old daughter last year.
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WINDHOEK – The Windhoek Regional Court last week provisionally withdrew a case of a man accused of raping, genitally defiling and mutilating a 10-year-old girl last year.
WINDHOEK – Family, friends and sympathisers of the late Ndihole-Omwene Joleinge showed up in numbers last week at the Katutura Magistrate’s Court to march against the release of the man accused of killing her last year.
WINDHOEK - A 26-year-old Namibian woman was arrested in Brazil last month after being allegedly found in possession of cocaine worth N$2 million.
WALVIS BAY - The body of a 52-year-old man was discovered on Friday morning in Kuisebmond, Walvis Bay.
WINDHOEK - The bringing of review applications at the point where it is not final in nature is not in the interest of justice nor is it cost effective, a Windhoek High Court Judge said when he dismissed a review
WINDHOEK – The woman who was arrested nearly three months ago for allegedly butchering her live-in boyfriend to death is still without a lawyer.
WINDHOEK - The defence counsel of an NDF soldier who is accused of murdering his biological daughter by drowning her in the Goreangab Dam in February 2017 asked Windhoek High Court Acting Judge Orben
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WINDHOEK - Windhoek High Court Judge Christi Liebenberg on Monday made true to his promise that he will not allow anymore-unnecessary delays in the long-running Teko trio trial when he refused an
WINDHOEK - Police recorded five rapes last weekend in which four teenage girls were alleged victims. Police at Mondesa in Swakopmund opened a case of rape after a known suspect, who remains at large,
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WINDHOEK - One of the Special Reserve Force police officers sent to the former Caprivi Region, now called Zambezi, on Monday testified how they laid ambushes for suspected rebels still roaming the area after the attacks on August 2, 1999 in Katima Mulilo.
WINDHOEK- A Windhoek man hanged himself in the bushes in Okapuka area after allegedly hacking his 30-year-old girlfriend with a panga on Saturday.
WINDHOEK – The prosecutor general is set to decide the fate of a woman who is in police custody for allegedly killing her pensioner lover when she stabbed him multiple times to death last year.
WINDHOEK – The Windhoek Magistrate’s Court has provisionally withdrawn a case against two people who stand accused of committing medical aid fraud to the tune of N$130 000.
WINDHOEK – A charge under an ordinance that was repealed 20 years ago came as an early Christmas gift for a man convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol and sentenced to a fine of N$4 500 or 12 months in prison.
WINDHOEK – The state has strongly objected to granting of bail for the 36-year old-man accused of repeatedly raping his stepdaughter for nearly four years.
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WINDHOEK - The defence counsel of 21-year-old David Elrico Kasupi last week grilled the investigating officer in the murder of his two-month pregnant girlfriend during cross-examination before Windhoek High Court Acting Judge Kobus Miller.
WINDHOEK - The Katutura Magistrate’s Court gave a final remand for the prosecutor general to make a decision in the matter of 10 people who stand accused of killing a 27-year-old Congolese refugee in June last year.
WINDHOEK - The Katutura Magistrate’s Court gave a final remand for the prosecutor general to pronounce herself in the case of a man who is in police custody for allegedly killing his brother last year over a debt of N$20.
WINDHOEK – The security guard accused of killing a woman and disposing of her body near the University of Namibia’s (Unam) main campus last year denied any wrongdoing when he tendered a no guilty plea.
WINDHOEK - The scene of crime officer tasked with the investigation into the murder of 71-year-old Karl-Heinz Kossmann on farm Aasvöelkrans in the Outjo District on September 25, 2017 yesterday testified about the observations he made when he arrived at the farm.
WINDHOEK _ A court session was delayed after faeces were discovered on the floor of the courtroom at Katutura Magistrate’s Court complex yesterday morning.
ONGWEDIVA - A 31-year-old man allegedly killed his girlfriend after he escaped from the Oshakati Intermediate Hospital where he was under police guard for theft of a laptop.
WINDHOEK - Hendrick Uirab, a resident from Mariental who confessed to stabbing his girlfriend and mother of his young son, will be sentenced on September 25, Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku said yesterday.
WINDHOEK - A 36-year-old truck driver appeared in Katima Mulilo Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday for allegedly trafficking two teenagers from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) into the country on Saturday. The children are a 13-year-old girl and 16-year-old boy. The suspect is identified as Chris Mujani.
ONGWEDIVA - Police in Oshana Region are pulling out all the stops to arrest the mother of a baby boy whose body was discovered yesterday at a dumpsite in Ongwediva.
WINDHOEK – A group of foreign nationals accused of carrying out an armed robbery at a shopping centre in Pioneerspark Extension 1, in 2017 and walking away with more than N$400 000 will be tried in Windhoek Regional Court tomorrow.
WINDHOEK – Double murder accused Petrus Paai yesterday abandoned his claim of self-defence in the killing of one of his victims, but asked the High Court to only convict him for culpable homicide.
OMUTHIYA -A three-year-old boy was on Sunday ran over by a trailer pulled by a Toyota pick-up driven by his father Joel Frans Nambahu at Oshivelo.
WINDHOEK – The Windhoek Regional Court shot down the attempt by a former Air Namibia cabin crew member who is accused of trying to smuggle N$5 million worth of heroin, at being discharged.
WINDHOEK – A woman accused of fatally stabbing her live-in boyfriend 17 times in 2009 is awaiting her psychiatric evaluation report.
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WINDHOEK – The Ministry of Justice Legal Aid Directorate has instructed former magistrate, turned defence lawyer, Jermaine Muchali to defend murder accused Panduleni Gotlieb in his murder trial in the Windhoek High Court at the Windhoek Correctional Facility before Judge Dinnah Usiku.
WINDHOEK – The former girlfriend of a man accused of the murder of his employer in Swakopmund in August 2017 yesterday effectively put him on the murder scene when she identified a cap the accused was wearing on the day of the murder.
SWAKOPMUND - A man was shot in the left foot on Wednesday morning by undercover police in Omaruru for apparently resisting arrest and for assaulting a police officer after he tried to sell a live pangolin.
ONGWEDIVA – There has been no arrest yet in the death of a former employee of the Ondonga Traditional Authority who in March was allegedly forced to drink poison by three unknown men at his rented room at
WINDHOEK – The Windhoek Regional Court is set to deliver a ruling on Friday in the case of a former Air Namibia cabin crew member who is accused of trying to smuggle N$5 million worth of heroin.
WINDHOEK – Windhoek High Court Judge Christi Liebenberg on Monday reserved his judgement in the murder trial of Rhyno Richardo du Preez, 36, and his co-accused and former lover Rachel Elizabeth
OMUTHIYA - A 34-year-old man succumbed to head injuries allegedly inflicted by his younger brother last Saturday following an altercation.
WINDHOEK - Six people died on the spot while another died in hospital after two vehicles collided along Trans Kalahari road near Gobabis NamWater dam on Sunday evening.
WINDHOEK- A fight over a comb at the Keetmanshoop police station holding cells claimed the life of a 21-year-old man over the weekend. The incident happened at about 10h00. In a crime report issued by
WALVIS BAY - A man was critically wounded after he was shot in Swakopmund on Saturday afternoon for allegedly stealing a braaipan.
WINDHOEK – The trial of five men who stand accused of a deadly armed robbery in Windhoek nearly a decade ago is scheduled to start in January 2020.
WINDHOEK – The Katutura Magistrate’s Court has refused to release on bail a man suspected of preying on women in Windhoek’s Goreangab informal settlement.
RUNDU - A 23-year-old woman became the latest reported victim of gender-based violence (GBV) at the hands of her lover after she was hacked to death in the early hours of Friday at Sikali village some 23 km south of Rundu.
WINDHOEK - A former Global Fund employee accused of killing his supervisor and wounding an ex-colleague made a first pre-trial appearance in the Windhoek High Court before Judge Christi Liebenberg yesterday.
WINDHOEK - Refugee Commissioner Likius Valombola, 54, made a routine pre-trial appearance in the Windhoek High Court yesterday on a charge of murder for the death of former Namibia National Student Organisation (Nanso) executive, 27-year-old Helao Kapembe Ndjaba.
WINDHOEK - A man, who stands accused of preying on lone women in Windhoek’s Goreangab informal settlement, is scheduled to make his first appearance in Katutura Magistrate’s Court today.
WINDHOEK - The Windhoek Regional Court has again postponed the case of five men involved in a deadly armed robbery in Windhoek nearly a decade ago.
WINDHOEK – The Katutura Magistrate’s Court yesterday released on bail a woman who was in custody for allegedly killing her pensioner lover.
SWAKOPMUND – A baby boy died on Monday evening at the hands of his mother, shortly after he was born in Swakopmund. This comes a week after the discovery of the corpse of a new-born baby at a dumpsite in Walvis Bay.
WINDHOEK - A 23-year-old man was arrested for robbery, theft and trespassing following an attack on tourists at Kamanjab last week. According to the weekly crime report, the suspects were three in
WINDHOEK - Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku yesterday issued a stern warning to the main accused in the murder and robbery trial of five men accused of breaking into the residence of Walvis Bay
WINDHOEK – Investigations into the case of Gewen Gawanab, accused of raping, genitally defiling and mutilating a 10-year-old girl last year, are finally complete.
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WINDHOEK – Former Windhoek-based magistrate Riana Hileni Kavara is set to apply for a state-funded lawyer due to unavailability of funds to acquire a privately funded one.
WINDHOEK - Lukas Nepela Nikodemus, 49, convicted of two murders and one count of defeating or obstructing the course of justice by Windhoek High Court Judge Christi Liebenberg last week, will be sentenced on August 20.
WINDHOEK - The murder and robbery trial of the five men accused of breaking into the residence of Walvis Bay businessman Hans-Jorg Möller and shooting him when he came to the defense of his wife and children, is set to start in the Windhoek High Court today.
WINDHOEK – The trial of the man being prosecuted for the death of two civilians and a Windhoek City Police officer has been set down for three months.
WINDHOEK – Windhoek High Court Judge Nate Ndauendapo on Friday convicted Johny Ryno Diergaardt, 33, guilty of murder with direct intent, read with the provisions of the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act.
WINDHOEK – Combined efforts by police on foot, vehicles and helicopter led to the swift arrest of four suspects who allegedly broke into Otjere Lodge east of Windhoek and stole valuable items last week
WINDHOEK - The man who admitted to have accidentally shot and killed elderly farmer Willem Cornelius de Klerk, 71, last week took to the witness stand to testify in his own defense.
WALVIS BAY – A 28-year old woman who allegedly tried to kill her biological son and made a video of the act is expected to appear in the Swakopmund Magistrate’s Court today for attempted murder and common
ONGWEDIVA -The police in Omusati Region are investigating a case of attempted murder against a suspect who allegedly injured three people in a shooting spree at Oshipambu location in the Anamulenge
WINDHOEK – The Windhoek Regional Court yesterday sentenced a man to an effective four years imprisonment for carrying out an attack in 2013 that left his former lover with a speech impairment.
WALVIS BAY – The Namibian police in Erongo are investigating a case of murder and concealment of birth following the discovery of the corpse of a new-born baby boy at the Walvis Bay dumping site on Wednesday
WINDHOEK – One of the accused in the murder and housebreaking trial of three farmworkers accused of murdering their employer and looting his residence testified yesterday that he was threatened by his co-accused to take part in the theft for which he is on trial.
WINDHOEK – A man from Ndama location in the Rundu district, accused of hacking his elderly father to death with a panga and then burying the body, was convicted of murder with direct intent, read with the
WINDHOEK – The Katutura Magistrate’s Court has given a final remand for the prosecutor general (PG) to make a decision in the matter of a man accused of slitting his ex-girlfriend’s throat with a knife and attempting to commit suicide.
WINDHOEK – Hendrick Uirab, a resident from Mariental yesterday pleaded guilty to a charge of murder read with the provisions of the Domestic Violence Act before Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku at the High Court situated at the Windhoek Correctional facility.
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WINDHOEK – The murder and housebreaking trial of three farmworkers accused of murdering their employer and looting his residence continued last week, with a firearm expert testifying that the version of
WINDHOEK – A 31-year-old man who was only employed for about two weeks by an elderly, white farmer near Outjo and then allegedly killed and robbed his employer, pleaded not guilty to all the charges that he faces in the Windhoek High Court before Acting Judge Orben Sibeya.
OMUTHIYA -Three minors aged six and eleven years were allegedly raped in Oshikoto Region in two separate incidents. In both incidents close relatives perpetuated the rapes, says the Regional Crime
RUNDU - Police in Kavango East have not made any arrests in the case of the recent heist at Standard Bank, which was ransacked by robbers in the early hours of Monday a week ago.
WINDHOEK - The police are yet to finalise their investigations into the case of a teenage girl arrested for allegedly dumping her lifeless baby at Greenwell Matongo, Katutura.
WINDHOEK – The mother of the five-year-old girl who was kidnapped from her pre-primary school in Khomasdal and later brutally raped on Thursday signed a form at the Gender-Based Violence Investigation
WINDHOEK - Coastal estate agent Erwin Sprangers, 58, and his wife Lorinda Sprangers, yesterday pleaded not guilty to a charge of fraud and five charges of theft by conversion, alternatively theft, before
WINDHOEK - The Namibian police is currently in pursuit of a man accused of repeatedly sexually violating his eight-year-old niece in Etayi Constituency.
WINDHOEK - A resident of Westerkim in Karasburg started to testify in his own defense yesterday on a charge of murder read with the provisions of the Combating of Domestic Violence Act, 4 of 2003 before
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SWAKOPMUND – A second trial-awaiting inmate, who escaped about two weeks ago from the Henties Bay holding cells, was re-arrested over the weekend in Swakopmund.
WINDHOEK - Both the defense counsel and the advocate for the State – who share the surname Litubezi though not related - yesterday did their utmost to sway Windhoek High Court Judge Christi Liebenberg in their favour in the double murder trial of Lukas Nepela Nikodemus, 49.
WINDHOEK – A man accused of raping, genitally defiling and mutilating a 10-year-old girl last year in Windhoek is expected to be tried in Windhoek High Court.
WINDHOEK – The Katutura Magistrate’s Court gave a final remand for the prosecutor general to make a decision in the matter of 10 people who stand accused of killing a 27-year-old Congolese refugee in June last
OMUTHIYA -The Police in Oshikoto have arrested two more suspects involved in the robbery of N$586 677 that happened in the early morning hours of Monday at Ideal Guesthouse in Omuthiya.
WINDHOEK – Police opened five cases of suicide last weekend including a fatality involving a pensioner who shot himself with a pistol.
WINDHOEK - Submissions before judgment in the case of a former cabin crew member of Air Namibia, accused of trying to smuggle N$5 million worth of heroin was yesterday postponed to August 16 by
WINDHOEK - Five men who were involved in a deadly armed robbery in Windhoek nearly a decade ago will be getting new trial dates in August.
SWAKOPMUND – Swakopmund Magistrate Conchita Olivier yesterday dismissed the bail application of Ernst Lichtenstrasser, the main suspect in the murder of Elkhart Mueller and Heimo Hellwig.
WINDHOEK – The trial of former minister of education Katrina Hanse-Himarwa will resume today with pre-sentencing procedures before Windhoek High Court Judge Christi Liebenberg.
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WINDHOEK - Another long stretch lays before five people accused of being part of a murder-for-hire plot in which a City of Windhoek employee lost his life in a most barbaric manner.
WINDHOEK - The investigating officer in the trial of an NDF soldier accused of murdering his biological daughter by drowning her in the Goreangab Dam in February 2017 testified yesterday before Windhoek
KEETMANSHOOP- Magistrate Melissa Mungunda on Monday found three accused persons not guilty on charges of stock theft, seven years after their first court appearance in the Keetmanshoop Magistrate’s Court.
WALVIS BAY – The Namibian police arrested one of the four prisoners that escaped from the Henties Bay holding cells, as well as another prisoner who escaped from the Karibib court in March this year.
WINDHOEK – A former schoolteacher accused of stabbing his wife to death nearly three months ago was remanded in custody pending police investigations.
OMUTHIYA - An act of betrayal by a ‘friend’ left a huge dent in the seemingly deep pockets of 27-year-old Oshikoto businessman Lazarus Shikalepo, as N$586 667 in cash was snatched from his vehicle while he
WINDHOEK – A six-year-old girl was one of three victims of reported sexual abuse over the weekend after a 16-year-old boy allegedly violated her.
WINDHOEK – Two Namibian police officers were arrested at Hosea Kutako International Airport after they were found in possession of 600 Euros that is alleged to have been bribed from a passenger boarding a
RUNDU - A 31-year-old police officer who was arrested for attempted murder in the wee hours of Friday morning at Kairaira village in Kavango West was denied bail.
WINDHOEK - The disputed bank statements the Office of the Prosecutor General obtained through summonses in the mega corruption trial of Teckla Lameck was definitively removed yesterday by
WINDHOEK – The trial of a former cabin crew member of Air Namibia, accused of trying to smuggle N$5 million worth of heroin, is nearing its end, with court submissions before judgement scheduled for today in the
KAIRAIRA - A 31-year-old police officer was arrested for attempted murder in the wee hours of Friday
SWAKOPMUND - Four trial-awaiting prisoners escaped from the Henties Bay police holding cells on Saturday afternoon.
RUNDU - A 27-year-old man was shot by some robbers while walking home from work on Friday evening and he later succumbed to his gunshot injuries in the Rundu Intermediate Hospital where he was rushed to
SWAKOPMUND - A-27-year-old man from Karibib was arrested on Thursday last week in connection with the death of a one-year-old girl.
OMUTHIYA -The Omuthiya Town Council is under probe from Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) investigators following allegations of corruption against the local authority councillors.
WINDHOEK - A former officer of the Namibian police (Nampol) who is part of a gang that deals in fake diamonds was arrested by Nampol last week. Three of his group members were arrested by the City
WINDHOEK - Windhoek High Court Judge Christi Liebenberg yesterday issued a warrant of arrest with immediate effect for three youngsters accused of taking turns to rape a woman at Gobabis in 2016.
WINDHOEK - Two men accused of rape in Swakopmund during 2015 and 2017 made a first appearance in the Windhoek High Court yesterday before Judge Christi Liebenberg.
WINDHOEK - Maryn Swart, the Chief Forensic Scientist at the National Forensic Science Institute (NFSI) yesterday testified that she only found the DNA of two of the accused in the ongoing murder-for-hire trial currently underway in the Windhoek High Court.
WINDHOEK–A magistrate that went absent without leave (AWOL) caused a nearly completed trial to start afresh before another magistrate, as was ordered by Acting High Court Judge Petrus Unengu.
WINDHOEK - A case of theft and fraud has been registered at Oshikango after employees of Kambwa Trading cc allegedly defrauded the company of over N$1 million.
KATIMA MULILO – An administrator from the Zambezi Regional Council’s education directorate was caught red-handed with 16 pieces of ivory in the wee hours of yesterday, conservation authorities said.
WINDHOEK - The fraud and corruption trial of former CEO of the Roads Contractor Company (RCC) Kelly Nghixulifwa and two of his business friends, Anna Ndoroma, 53, and Hafeni Nginamwaami, 50, was put back
WINDHOEK - The scientist that collected and analysed the exhibits found at the scene where the lifeless body of Peter Riscoh Muleke, 36, was found in a pool of blood has testified in the murder-for-hire trial
WINDHOEK - The trial of two Namibians and 12 Angolans accused of defrauding the Namibian
WINDHOEK - One of the persons in the trial of five people in a murder-for-hire trial has abandoned his plans to hire an advocate to defend him for lack of funds.
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WINDHOEK - Police have commissioned a helicopter to fly over Windhoek as part of their crime prevention efforts.
WALVIS BAY - Unknown suspects allegedly broke into the Markhams shop and stole items worth N$208 000 on Thursday night last week.
WINDHOEK – A former Oshakati magistrate was convicted on 16 charges of corruption yesterday in the Windhoek High Court for allegedly soliciting, accepting or agreeing to accept a bribe in order to withdraw traffic tickets.
WINDHOEK – The trial of a former hostel superintendent accused of raping 10 boys at Karundu Primary School in Otjiwarongo has come to a standstill in order for the accused to get a new legal counsel.
WINDHOEK – The Namibian police confiscated various drugs valued at N$ 1.3 million for the period of June.
WINDHOEK – The trial of Affirmative Repositioning (AR) land activist Dimbulukeni Nauyoma is scheduled to start in October.
OMUTHIYA - A 21-year-old pregnant learner was on Monday sexually violated in the vicinity of Onethindi in
WINDHOEK - One of the accused in the trial of five people, including the wife of the deceased in a murder-for-hire case, is asking High Court Judge Johanna Salionga to postpone the trial for a year in order for him
WINDHOEK – A thirteen-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped on Saturday evening in Aranos, police say. The victim is one of five underage girls who were sexually violated during the weekend.
WINDHOEK – Tourists from Indonesian were robbed of their goods while asleep at a lodge in Khorixas on Thursday last week, police say.
SWAKOPMUND – An investigating officer in the murder case against Ernest Lichtenstrasser, says that the state does not have eyewitnesses to the murders but has overwhelming forensic evidence in the matter.
WINDHOEK – Windhoek City Police arrested three men who allegedly impersonated police officers and a magistrate last Thursday.
WINDHOEK – A member of the Namibia Defence Force (NDF) was arrested after driving an unlicensed vehicle that was involved in an accident on Friday, killing a passenger.
WINDHOEK – The prosecutor general is set to pronounce herself in the matter of a teenager who stands accused of killing her 25-year-old former lover last year in Katutura.
WINDHOEK – The bail appeal of a former paramedic in the Namibian Defence Force (NDF), accused of
WINDHOEK – The investigating officer in the case of 10 people who stand accused of killing a 27-year-old Congolese refugee in June last year has been sent back to the drawing board.
WINDHOEK - A security guard in police custody on suspicion of having murdered Theresia Pietersen, 31, whose body was discovered near the University of Namibia’s (Unam) main campus last year, will be
WINDHOEK - An NDF soldier who is accused of murdering his biological daughter by drowning her in the Goreangab Dam in February 2017 denied all charges against him yesterday.
WALVIS BAY - Heavily traumatised learners of Namib High School in Swakopmund had to undergo counselling yesterday at the school. This follows after a learner of the school committed suicide on Sunday at another school.
WINDHOEK - A 30-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death by his friend over a cellular phone on Saturday in Usakos.
WINDHOEK – An employee of the Office of the Judiciary who was in police custody for threatening his employer’s life was released on bail yesterday in Windhoek Magistrate’s Court.
WALIVIS BAY – A Tutaleni resident was arrested over the weekend in connection with the rape of an 8-year-old girl. The police are also looking for a second suspect who allegedly also raped the minor on several
WINDHOEK – A taxi driver was arrested on Saturday for allegedly kidnapping, sexually assaulting and
WINDHOEK - The prosecutor general is yet to pronounce herself in the matter of a man currently in police custody for allegedly killing his brother last year.
WINDHOEK - Six men who stand accused of robbing a local commercial bank in Otjiwarongo in March and walking away with N$2.9 million were released on bail on Friday.
WINDHOEK – The prosecutor general has decided to prosecute Refugees Commissioner Likius Valombola, 53, for the death of former Namibia National Student Organisation’s (Nanso) executive member Helao
WALVIS BAY – A man who disappeared with a borrowed cellphone was killed at Spitzkoppe over the weekend while another one lost his life for reportedly confronting a man who had bumped into his friend in a
WINDHOEK - A 17-year-old boy was arrested for stabbing a fellow teenager with a knife in the chest. The
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WINDHOEK – The Windhoek Regional Court sentenced a man who recently got convicted for dealing in cannabis worth N$228 000 to seven years imprisonment.
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WINDHOEK – Burundian national who was arrested on Friday in Kleine Kuppe for drug dealing in cocaine worth over N$300 000 allegedly offered a N$13 000 bribe to a police officer investigating his case so that the charges could be dropped.
WINDHOEK - Police recorded four rapes over the weekend, which included a six-year-old girl who was raped at Nkurenkuru by a 26-year-old suspect.
WINDHOEK - A 20-year-old man was bumped by a vehicle after fleeing a scene where he and others broke into a car during the wee hours of Sunday morning at Goreangab informal settlement.
WINDHOEK – A resident of Westerkim location in Karasburg will plead today on a charge of murder read with the provisions of the Combating of Domestic Violence Act, 4 of 2003 before newly appointed Acting Judge of the Windhoek High Court Eileen Rakow.
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WINDHOEK - The Office of the Prosecutor General got their date yesterday to apply for leave to appeal the acquittal of 41 men accused of high treason, murder, attempted murder, sedition, public violence and
WINDHOEK - Windhoek Regional Court acquitted a man on a murder charge for having caused the death of Calvin Uriseb, 25, over N$30 three years ago.
RUNDU - A 26-year-old male suspect was arrested for the alleged rape of a 22- year-old woman.
WINDHOEK - Two brothers accused of raping a nine-year old girl on various occasions in the DRC settlement of Swakopmund denied all charges against them when their trial started in the Windhoek High Court last week.
WINDHOEK - The trial of two men accused of killing an Acacia High School learner nearly five years ago will resume in November.
WALVIS BAY - A fisheries and marine resources employee at its Walvis Bay office was found dead at his home yesterday after he initially sent a frantic message to a colleague.
WINDHOEK – Windhoek High Court Acting Judge Claudia Claasen late last week dismissed a bail
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