Iuze Mukube A father of a two-year-old boy, whose head was reportedly slammed twice against a concrete pole, along a railway line in Otavi in 2023, tendered a guilty plea for the murder of his son on Tuesday. Thomas Muronga (29) faced three charges, including murder, assault by threat and assault with intent to do...
Iuze Mukube An application that sought to have the Federal Republic of Germany joined as a party to answer to the atrocities committed during the country’s colonial regime in Namibia was on Tuesday dismissed in the Windhoek High Court. The decision read by Judge Beatrix de Jager and concurred by Judge Hannelie Prinsloo and Judge...
Iuze Mukube The mother of a one-year-old baby, whose body was discovered buried in a shallow grave on Farm Bucholtzbrunn in 2023, bearing multiple stab wounds to the neck, chest and abdomen, was found guilty of killing the infant yesterday. Vapeni Lucia Boois was tried in the Windhoek High Court before Judge Philanda Christiaan. The...
Iuze Mukube Windhoek High Court Judge Claudia Claasen last Thursday recused herself from the trial of a man accused of shooting his colleague point-blank to the head with a gun while transporting a cash-transit vehicle back to Windhoek. Theodor Shipanga, the accused, faces a charge of murder, robbery with aggravating circumstances and defeating and obstructing...
Two Namibia Defence Force (NDF) members died on Monday night after a shooting incident in Windhoek West that also left another man injured. The shooting is believed to have been driven by a domestic dispute. In a brief police report, Deputy Commissioner Kauna Shikwambi confirmed yesterday that Abner Shilemba (33), an NDF member stationed at...
Iuze Mukube A 50-year-old man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend, allegedly for fear that she would testify against him in a rape case, told the court that alcohol and anger led him to kill his former girlfriend and the mother of his children. Arnold Khamseb was testifying for mitigation in a pre-sentencing proceeding yesterday before...
SWAKOPMUND – Residents of Usakos are demanding more police visibility and stricter bail measures for violent criminals. The concerned community held a peaceful protest yesterday morning and handed over a petition at the Usakos Magistrate’s Court. The petition was received by prosecutor Steven Kamunima, just before murder accused Steven “Xam” Garoëb (39) made his first...
SWAKOPMUND – Blood-stained clothes hidden inside a water tanker led a team of police investigators to the man suspected of killing 43-year-old Imolatria Dominika Gaoses in Usakos on Friday. The 39-year-old man, who grew up in the same residential area as the deceased, was arrested on Friday afternoon after the clothes he was wearing earlier...
Katima Mulilo – Katima Mulilo woke up to news of a daring break-in at the town council offices in the wee hours of Saturday. By sunrise, management officials had already converged on the scene, moving from office to office as they assessed damage, and coordinated their next steps. Council spokesperson Chrispin Muyoba described how intruders...
Iuze Mukube A Windhoek High Court Judge on Friday vocally condemned the killing of a close family member by a father and son, stating that the killing of the deceased within a domestic relationship constituted an aggravating factor. Judge Philanda Christiaan stated this factor requires stern judicial response to deter violence within the family and...