Rudolf Gaiseb The High Court yesterday suspended youth minister Agnes Tjongarero’s decision to dismiss and remove the National Youth Council of Namibia (NYC) board. The court also put Tjongarero’s directive to halt the holding of the NYC’s general assembly (GA) on ice. In the matter heard on an urgent basis, High Court Judge Shafimana Ueitele...
KATIMA MULILO – The police in the Zambezi are investigating a road accident after a vehicle which was reportedly carrying illegal elephant tusks and other game products overturned at Kapani village, some 90 kilometres south of Katima Mulilo last Friday night. Sergeant Alex Mawaya the spokesperson of the Namibian Police traffic unit in Zambezi confirmed...
UIS – A group of disgruntled people who occupied the Dâuredaman Traditional Authority office in Uis have been ordered to vacate the premises following a High Court ruling on Monday. They had been camping at the office in protest, demanding that their chief, Sagarias Seibeb, hands over to them the keys to the office and...
Iuze Mukube Walter Mostert, a former magistrate accused of fraud, will stay in police detention after Judges Claudia Classen and Herman January dismissed his appeal for refusal of bail in the High Court yesterday. This followed the regional court’s refusal to allow him to be released on bail. Mostert is charged with 12 counts and...
Auleria Wakudumo Police in Otjozondjupa are investigating a case of murder after a 49-year-old man was fatally shot while allegedly trying to rescue a lady who was being robbed last week. Otjozondjupa’s Community Policing Sub-division head, Senior Inspector Maureen Mbeha, said the incident occurred at Carwash No.1 in Okahandja at around 11h03 on Monday. She...
Iuze Mukube Another application brought by alleged Fishrot mastermind Sacky Shanghala last week was dismissed as having no grounds to stand on by acting High Court judge Moses Chinhengo. The stay application was to postpone the plea-taking stage to make way for the former justice minister to file a review with the Supreme Court for...
Iuze Mukube Acting Judge David Munsu dismissed the bail application by Tamson ‘Fitty’ Hatuikulipi, who is one of the Fishrot accused, due to an absence of new facts. Judge Munsu said the grounds put forth by the applicant as new facts were already dealt with during his second bail application in the High Court in...
Rudolf Gaiseb The Electoral Court ruled on Friday that the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) must provide the Landless People’s Movement and Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) the information they seek. The LPM and the IPC want access to voting materials including the total votes cast, the total votes rejected, spoiled ballots, the total number...
Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku on Wednesday sentenced a man who killed his girlfriend over rumours that she was unfaithful by beating her several times with a 14kg stone, to an effective 41 years in jail. She convicted Jeremias Nowaseb (40) of murder, read with the provisions of the Combating of Domestic Violence Act,...
KATIMA MULILO – Police in Zambezi region have re-arrested three of 13 inmates who escaped from Kongola holding cells on Sunday evening. Most of the escapees are Zambian nationals. The three escapees were all re-arrested in the Kongola area. The incident happened when the inmates were being given supper. Zambezi police spokesperson Kisco Sitali said...