RUNDU – Former deputy minister of home affairs, immigration, safety and security, Daniel Kashikola, has been hospitalised at Rundu after surviving a horrific car crash on the western outskirts of Rundu, he was allegedly traveling to Nkurenkuru. The accident left Kashikola with serious injuries as he sustained a fractured left leg and internal bleeding but...
Lahja Nashuuta Festus Hamalwa Mariental –The road outside Mariental still tells the story of tragedy. Oil spills and mangled debris mark the spot where 14 Namibian Police and Correctional Service officers perished in a devastating head-on crash that left a town and a nation in mourning on Saturday morning. Passing motorists slow down, some hooting...
WALVIS BAY – The safety and security cluster at the coast is reeling in shock after one of its own, Sergeant Eustance Simasiku Matongo, was shot dead in the line of duty. Matongo was gunned down on Wednesday evening while trying to convince a robbery suspect not to take his own life. Matongo (34), was...
Namibia has been thrown into mourning following one of the darkest road tragedies in recent memory after 16 people – 14 officers from the Namibian Correctional Services and the Namibian Police Force, as well as two civilians, died in the horrific road accident on Saturday. The civilians were a heavily pregnant woman and her sister....
Iuze Mukube A woman accused of setting a shack on fire in Windhoek, in which two people were killed, told Judge Claudia Claasen that she was coerced into making a confession by a warrant officer. Mecthilde Karomo (32) faces charges of arson and two counts of murder following the deaths of Leonard Haupindi Kadubuli and...
State Advocate Basson Lilungwe yesterday asked Windhoek High Court Acting Judge Makapa Simasiku to find Denzil Xavier Dawids (25) guilty on all charges he faces. Dawids allegedly rammed his car into a stationery vehicle and killed a female passenger on 1 October 2023 in Gobabis. He denied all charges and said the incident was the...
A woman accused of defrauding a private school in Windhoek of more than N$2,8 million started to testify in her own defence yesterday. Maria Johanna Coetzee (52), explained to the court how she managed to pay money from the school’s bank account into accounts of her own. Coetzee, however, denied five of the charges against...
A 35-year-old hearing-impaired man who was convicted of killing his wife and mother of his three minor children was sentenced to an effective 20 years in jail last week. Oshakati High Court Judge Erich Kesslau sentenced Christian Kudumo to 25 years but suspended five years for five years on condition that Kudumo is not convicted...
Matheus David A wave of crime, drug busts and tragic incidents rocked several regions over the last weekend, leaving families in mourning and police with a heavy caseload. In Walvis Bay, Hage Geingob Street, it is alleged that the suspect broke into a 48-year-old Namibian female’s house, beat her, tied her up and stole two...
Iuze Mukube The warrantless seizure of devices by the Anti-Corruption Commission, particularly a laptop, during the arrest of former Namcor executive Cornelius Cedric Willemse, has become a key issue in his bail bid. A cellphone and laptop were taken by the ACC officers. This followed the request on Monday by his lawyer, Boris Isaacks, to...