Sara Ngenohani Damases, who is accused together with prominent Windhoek lawyer Dirk Conradie of attempting to bribe advertising company DV8 Saatchi and Saatchi owners started her testimony in her defence yesterday. Conradie and Damaseb are accused of attempting to bribe Kim Fields and Mark Bongers with the lucrative MTC advertising contract, provided they took on...
Eba Kandovazu The trial of two men, accused of murdering a relative, has resumed in the Windhoek High Court on Monday. A medical doctor confirmed the victim’s condition. The accused, 61-year-old Hendrik Le Roux, and his 31-year-old son, Borris Le Roux, appeared before Judge Philanda Christiaan. They maintained their innocence in connection with the alleged...
A 39-year-old man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly raping a 17-year-old boy on various occasions at his house. He allegedly offered the victim N$200 to silence him after he committed the immoral. The incident first occurred in January and again last week at Ehafo Lya Nelulu village in the Uukwiyuushona constituency in Oshana...
Windhoek High Court Judge Claudia Claasen last week sentenced a Khorixas resident convicted of killing his common-law wife and mother of his two children with a pickaxe to an effective jail term of 28 years. Nawaseb was convicted on one count of breaking and entering with intent to murder and murder for breaking into the...
Windhoek High Court Judge Orben Sibeya dismissed an application by the Popular Democratic Movement to set aside the government’s decision to lease farms to a Russian billionaire, Rashid Sardarov. The decision to lease four farms to Sardarov for 99 years was taken by then land reform minister Utoni Nujoma. Since then, PDM has been pushing...
Iuze Mukube Former fisheries, land reform and agriculture minister Mac-Albert Hengari will learn tomorrow whether he will be released from custody or if the State’s application for postponement will succeed. Hengari (59) and his 30-year-old co-accused appeared in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court yesterday. A peacefull protest demanding his release was also staged. They each face...
Denzil Xavier Dawids (25), who allegedly rammed his car into a stationary vehicle and killed a female passenger on 1 October 2023 in Gobabis, pleaded not guilty to all charges on Monday. He made the plea before Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku at the High Court situated at the Windhoek Correctional Facility. Dawids is...
Iuze Mukube A 33-year-old Keetmanshoop resident yesterday pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder in relation to the death of his then-stepfather, Deon Bobeje, on 27 February 2021 in Kronlein. Kevin Matthew Cloete, who is facing a count of murder for stabbing Bobeje with a knife in the chest during a heated argument, made...
Zebaldt Ngaruka A case of rape has been opened in Ovitoto settlement after a 25-year-old female was allegedly raped on Friday. According to the crime report seen by New Era, the incident happened at around 02h00 on Saturday at Okandjira village. The victim was on her way home from a bar. A 20-year-old male suspect...
RUNDU – Three men appeared in the Rundu Magistrate’s Court on Friday facing a charge of murder each following the murder of Veronika Mate Haingura, whose body was discovered at Sivara village in Kavango West on Tuesday morning. Mathias Siteketa Kangumu (22), Sikongo Asgar Morosi (29) and Zoka Kanisius Sikongo (30) are all Namibians, were...