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The matter in which Chinese businessman Hou Xuecheng and his Namibian co-accused Hamutenja Hamutenya were summoned to appear on a count of dealing in controlled wildlife products from 2014, was put on hold again on Wednesday. This time, it is to allow Xuecheng, who is no stranger to the law, the opportunity to raise funds...
Iuze Mukube The curtain has come down on Affirmative Repositioning leader Job Amupanda’s court application for the removal of the veterinary cordon fence (VCF), also known as the redline. Judge Shafimana Ueitele yesterday dismissed the application, stating that the applicant failed to provide sufficient evidence to the court to support his claims. Amupanda also sought...
Iuze Mukube High Court Judge Shafimana Ueitele will deliver his verdict around the removal of the Veterinary Cordon Fence (VCF), notoriously known as the redline, today. The ruling will determine whether the defence successfully argued for the dismissal of Job Amupanda’s challenge for the removal of the redline, citing it lacked sufficient legal merit. The...
Iuze Mukube Windhoek High Court Judge Philanda Christiaan on Monday found Rodney Hoxobeb guilty on a murder charge and four others. The 29-year-old was charged with multiple offences, including murder, attempted murder, robbery with aggravating circumstances, reckless or negligent driving, driving without a driver’s licence and driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor. He was,...
A man who allegedly lured young girls to his house with the promise of fixing a gold ring to their teeth, lost another lawyer last Thursday when Charles Beukes withdrew due to untenable instructions. Johan Paru Morkel is facing seven counts of rape, alternatively committing or attempting to commit a sexual act with a child...
Two police officers who were summoned to the scene of an alleged rape incident in 2018 involving a father and his biological daughter at Khorixas, testified this week. The suspect is also accused of murdering his former girlfriend and mother of his three children to prevent her from testifying in the rape allegation against him. ...
Iuze Mukube Rodney Afrikaner, who is convicted of murdering his partner, is pleading for mercy and a lighter sentence from court. He has already spent six years in custody. The 44-year-old was convicted of murder with indirect intent late last month by Judge Claudia Claasen for fatally attacking his partner Patricia Hochobes (39) with a...
A 35-year-old man, accused of strangling his former intimate partner to death after she refused to have intercourse with him, made his first appearance before Deputy Judge President Nate Ndauendapo in the Windhoek High Court on Wednesday. Henny Christy Murphy faces charges of housebreaking with intent to murder, murder (read with the provisions of the...
Iuze Mukube A 34-year-old man took the stand on Monday before Judge Philanda Christiaan, asserting that he is the victim of a set-up orchestrated by the complainant and his former girlfriend regarding the charges of rape and housebreaking alleged against him. Moses Aubrey Salele, who was acquitted of nine charges, is now facing four counts,...
Windhoek High Court Judge Philanda Christiaan roasted a magistrate from Swakopmund for “failure to apply judicial care and diligence in the exercise of duties. In a review judgement on the matter of Reinhold Hinkab, who was convicted of theft and sentenced to a fine of N$8 000 or 12 months imprisonment, Judge Christiaan, in concurrence...