The Namibian Police Force (NamPol) said it has seized drugs worth over N$3.5 million in the month of March this year. NamPol in a media statement issued yesterday said the drugs seized were cannabis weighing 312 560 kilogrammes valued at N$3 125 600 and 3 965 Mandrax tablets valued at N$475 800. Cocaine powder of...
Crime and Courts
Woman denied bail in attempted murder case
Mulisa Simiyasa OTJIWARONGO – Katrina Geises was denied bail by the Otjiwarongo Magistrate’s Court on Monday afternoon when she made her first court appearance in a case of attempted murder. She was arrested at Otjiwarongo in the Otjozondjupa region on Friday for allegedly stabbing her ex-boyfriend with a knife once on the left side of...
Weekend crashes claim eight lives
Eba Kandovazu Eight people died in car accidents recorded by the Namibian Police Force (NamPol) across the country over the weekend, with the youngest victims being two eight-year-old boys. A crime incident report said eight-year-old Lukas Sheehamange died after being struck by a vehicle while crossing the Onakalunga-Oushake road at Eenhana in the Ohangwena region...
Alleged child rapists want charges withdrawn
Eba Kandovazu Two men, accused of trafficking and raping an 11-year-old girl on separate occasions, have lodged an application in the Windhoek High Court to have the charges withdrawn in terms of section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Act. Dirk von Weidts (73) is charged alongside 46-year-old Arrie Jors. The alleged rape incidents happened at...
Drug abuse, poverty blamed for Usakos murders … suspect ‘confesses’ to sickening killings
USAKOS – Drug abuse, a cycle of sheer poverty and a moment of madness have surfaced as harbingers to the killings of six family members in cold blood, suspectedly at the hands of their own. “A child raised in the skirt of his grandmother since the age of five doesn’t just wake up and beat...
Man nabbed for selling stolen uniforms
ONDANGWA – Petrus Absalom (24), was arrested on Monday after he was allegedly caught red handed selling police uniforms in Ondangwa. Absalom appeared in court yesterday and was denied bail. The matter was postponed to 4 August 2025. Namibia Police Force’s deputy commissioner Fredrik Ndjadila said, the uniforms were reported stolen from a house two...
Return to senses, Amushelelo told
Iuze Mukube Acting Judge Anne-Doris Hans-Kaumbi said the aim of the sentence in a contempt of court [facie curiae] matter is to bring an offender to his senses in the very proceedings in which the offence is committed. Social activist Michael Amushelelo was convicted on a charge of contempt committed in court on 7 April...
Amushelelo contempt judgment today
Iuze Mukube Social activist Michael Amushelelo will today hear the outcome of the charge against him, meted out by Acting Judge Anne-Doris Hans-Kaumbi. On Monday evening, a decisive ruling convicted the social activist of contempt of court. He was arrested following a dramatic confrontation, where he publically denounced the judiciary as “puppets and “little gods”....
Drama continues in permanent residency fight
After Windhoek High Court Acting Judge Collins Parker found in favour of a German couple who challenged their refusal to be granted permanent residence in Namibia, authorities sought to appeal the decision in the Supreme Court. The authorities in question are Chairperson of the Immigration Selection Board, and the Chief of Immigration. Judge Parker ordered...
No bail for Outjo accused rustlers
OUTJO – Four men accused of being involved in a large-scale cattle theft and mass slaughter incident in the Outjo district appeared in the Outjo Magistrate’s Court on Monday, where they were denied bail. The accused 47-year-old Kilian Masele; 34-year-old Matheus Kataeko; 30-year-old Vevangapi Kambapa; and 41-year-old Titus Negongo were arrested in Outjo and Otjiwarongo...