A suspected robber was fatally shot and killed on Tuesday morning along Independence Avenue next to Engen service station in Windhoek’s central business district. One suspect was apprehended, while another escaped during an attempted robbery.Commissioner Kauna Shikwambi of the Namibian Police said the incident occurred around 07h40 at Kwasi (The Tailor) clothing shop.The owner of...
Iuze Mukube The concerning pattern of murders in Namibia continued over the weekend. In total, six murders were reported by the Namibian Police Force between Friday and Sunday. The first incident occurred in Ondangwa on Friday. The suspect, identified as Elia Shitongeni Hamukwaya, a male aged 38, allegedly killed his girlfriend, Emilia Nangombe (34), before...
A 36-year-old medical doctor, accused of raping his seven-year-old son, wants the court to release him on a warning. The doctor, who may not be named to protect the identity of the alleged victim, and his mother are facing a charge of rape each. It is alleged by the State that they sexually violated the...
Mulisa Simiyasa OTJIWARONGO – A Brazilian tourist charged with culpable homicide and negligent driving following an accident in which nine people were killed on the B1 road outside Otavi, was on Thursday released on bail by the Otavi Magistrate’s Court. The 59-year-old Luiz Charles Araujo De Sa appeared before Magistrate Ounjandere Ndjiharine, who set bail...
The wife and co-accused of a man on trial for the murder of a nine-year-old girl allegedly confessed to a State witness that he killed the deceased. Esther Nkata, who at first said she is the mother of Edward Nkata, but then corrected herself and said he is her sister’s son, told Windhoek High Court...
The commissioner general of the Namibian Correctional Services, Raphael Hamunyela, on Monday dismissed concerns raised by families of the Fishrot accused that their lives are in danger at the Windhoek Correctional Facility.
Defence attorney Milton Engelbrecht has been instructed by Legal Aid to defend Wickus Johann, Maree who is facing 75 counts of raping underage boys.
The trial of seven men accused of trying to secede the then Caprivi Strip from Namibia in August 1999, is in its last stretch in the Windhoek High Court operating from the Windhoek Correctional Facility.
Ernst Lichtenstrasser, the man who shot two people at the Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology (NIMT)’s entrance in 2019 in cold blood, wants the court to sentence him to house arrest.
The Erongo Police have arrested three of the seven men in connection with an armed robbery where the group ambushed two security guards and robbed them of money they were about to deposit in the bank in Karibib.