Iuze Mukube Magistrate Esme Molefe has extended the period of remand for the accused in the Namcor N$400 million fraud and conspiracy case. The Magistrate made a ruling whereby she granted the State’s request to postpone the matter to next year, yesterday in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court. The accused in the matter are expected to...
Iuze Mukube A sentence of life imprisonment was imposed on a convicted man by Windhoek High Court Judge Claudia Claasen for the murder of his ex-domestic partner and the mother of his three children. Arnold Khamseb (50) was convicted in November for a charge of murder, and housebreaking with intent to rape and rape. The...
Iuze Mukube A father, who admitted that he held his two-year-old son by the legs and proceeded to slam his head on a concrete pillar situated next to a railway line in Otavi in 2023, was sentenced to a period of 25-years imprisonment yesterday. Thomas Muronga (30) was convicted on 18 November 2025 on charges...
Iuze Mukube Former justice minister Sacky Shanghala filed another request with acting judge Marilize du Plessis, asking for a delay in the start of the Fishrot trial until all pre-trial issues are resolved. During yesterday’s proceedings, where the trial was expected to begin, Shanghala argued that the trial cannot move forward while a review application...
KATIMA MULILO – A 33-year-old woman was allegedly stabbed to death by her husband in the Chotto informal settlement at Katima Mulilo on Sunday. The woman was taken to the Katima Mulilo District Hospital after being stabbed multiple times on the head and face around 21h00, the Namibian Police said in its weekend crime report....
Iuze Mukube A resident of Lüderitz yesterday in the Windhoek High Court tendered a guilty plea to a charge of murder for stabbing his four-month pregnant wife, Dorethea Ricket, multiple times with a knife in 2014. Johannes Swartbooi, is facing a charge of murder, read with the provisions of the Combating of Domestic Violence Act....
Iuze Mukube The prosecutor in the ongoing N$400 million corruption and fraud scandal alleged to have been committed at the State-owned petroleum company, Namcor, has filed for an application seeking for further postponement of the matter until next year. The matter was heard last Friday in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Esme Molefe. State...
Iuze Mukube Windhoek High Court Acting Judge Marilize du Plessis on Monday found a 39-year-old man, facing two charges in connection with the death of his wife, guilty of murder and housebreaking. The conviction comes as a result of a tendered guilty plea by Robert Marlo McNab, in which he admitted that he killed his...
Iuze Mukube An application lodged by former minister of justice Sacky Shanghala in the Windhoek High Court, seeks to restrain and stop the Prosecutor General and the Anti- Corruption Commission (ACC) from continuing to prosecute him. This, he says, is because the investigations conducted by the ACC which led to his prosecution was not conducted...
RUNDU – The police in the Kavango East are investigating the cause of a fire that occured in the early hours of Thursday at the Rundu Magistrate’s Court records office. The fire damaged everything that was in the building. “An arson case will be opened, our forensic investigators have been notified and they are on...