The criminal trial of self-proclaimed forex trader-turned activist-turned politician, Michael Amushelelo, and his business partner, Gergory Cloete, was postponed to 7 August this year for a trial judge to be assigned to them. This was indicated yesterday by Deputy Judge President Hannelie Prinsloo during a scheduled pre-trial hearing. The trial has been delayed for over...
Molly Weyulu In the quiet corridors of Namibian homes, an unspoken crisis is emerging, one that is claiming lives faster than society can respond.Between January and March this year, 124 people died by suicide in Namibia, with 108 of these being men. The statistics, recently released by the Namibian Police, paint a sobering picture of...
Mulisa Simiyasa GROOTFONTEIN – The British tourist detained at Maroelaboom Police Station is seeking release on bail of N$50 000. He was arrested over the alleged Tsumkwe West nude photographs of San children at the Grashoek Living Museum in May this year. Douglas Robert Brooks (65) has been in custody since May. He informed the...
Ex-cabinet minister and current member of Parliament Pohamba Shifeta has denied rape allegations after a criminal case was opened against him by a woman with whom he has fathered a five-year-old girl. The purported rape incident happened on Independence Day, some three months ago. But the case was only opened on Monday. Shifeta dismissed the...
KATIMA MULILO – Two people were confirmed dead by the Namibian Police in the Zambezi region on Sunday afternoon after their canoe capsized in the Zambezi River last Monday. According to Zambezi regional police spokesperson and Head of Community Policing, Chief Inspector Kisco Sitali, the incident happened at Impalila Island along the Namibia-Zambia border while...
Suzith Tjitaura KEETMANSHOOP – A 28-year-old woman was allegedly stabbed to death by her boyfriend at Rosh Pinah in the //Kharas region on Friday. Namibian Police crime investigations coordinator for the region, Deputy Commissioner Nicodemus Mbango, on Sunday said the incident happened between 20h00 and 21h00 at the Tutungeni residential area. The deceased was identified...
A public prosecutor stationed at Mariental was exonerated on a charge of rape on a section 174 application. Regional Magistrate Stanley Tembwe granted the application lodged by prominent criminal defence lawyer Mbanga Siyomunji on behalf of public prosecutor Romeo Goagoseb. Goagoseb was accused of having had sexual relations with a woman in Mariental without her...
Iuze Mukube Twelve years later, the family of Gobabis’s stock theft investigator Hiambepo ‘Major’ Kazeurua finally found a measure of closure. This is after the custodial sentences to his killers were delivered last Friday in the Windhoek High Court. Acting Judge Alfred Siboleka has sentenced three men to 25 years in prison each for the...
Iuze Mukube Prominent lawyer Sisa Namandje, who is representing some accused in the Namcor corruption saga, accused the State of not only having a weak case but also barking at the wrong door. Yesterday, Namandje fired a barrage at the State’s handling of the Namcor scandal case, arguing that the matter is being wrongly criminalised...
Auleria Wakudumo Tuutileni Miika, a 48-year-old former employee of Henning Crushers, has denied all five charges against him during his formal bail application in the Ondangwa Magistrate’s Court last week. The charges include the alleged murder of his former manager, John Myberg, attempted murder, theft, unlawful discharge of a firearm and assault by threat. Miika,...