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...
OSHAKATI – The Namibian police regional Commander for the Oshana region, Commissioner Naftal Lungameni Sakaria, has confirmed the arrest of six suspects in connection with a violent attack on a 30-year-old female public prosecutor at Ondangwa last month. The prosecutor was allegedly ambushed on 17 October while driving to work at the Ondangwa Magistrate’s Court....
Iuze Mukube An unwavering and resounding plea for justice was penned in a letter presented in court from the family of a woman who was killed by her ex-lover and the father of her children last Wednesday. The letter presented by a witness, who shall remain anonymous for protection of identity, captured the frustration and...
Iuze Mukube Windhoek High Court Deputy Judge President Hannelie Prinsloo last Wednesday scheduled the trial of British businessman Harvey Boulter for commencement in March, next year. This was following the request of Boulter’s lawyer, Sisa Namandje, for a longer postponement in order to consider the Supreme Court judgement that upheld the decision of the prosecutor...
Iuze Mukube A 37-year-old woman was sentenced to an effective prison term of 23 years on a charge of murder last Friday. The sentence stems from the death of her one-year-old baby, who was found buried in a shallow grave on Farm Bucholtzbrunn in 2023. Windhoek High Court Judge Philanda Christiaan, while handing down the...