Windhoek High Court Judge Thomas Masuku dismissed an application by Windhoek-based lawyers, Dirk Conradie, and Sara Damases to be acquitted from the corruption charges in terms of Section 174 application. Judge Masuku earlier this week found that the State produced enough prima facie evidence to put the accused on their defence on charges of fraud....
Former head of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s army Francois Tete Olenga is fighting tooth and nail to have more than N$10 million forfeited to the Namibian government returned. The Bank of Namibia (BoN), on instructions from the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC), declared the money forfeited to the State because of the “uncertain origin.” Olenga,...
Iuze Mukube Acting Judge Moses Chinhengo has deferred his decision on an application for the separation of trial in the ongoing Fishrot case to next Tuesday. The application was lodged based on lack of legal representation by former justice minister Sacky Shanghala, who asked that the trial be divided to address disparities among the co-accused....
Police in the Ohangwena region are investigating a murder case involving a 33-year-old man who allegedly killed his sister (18), and mutilated her private parts. Ohangwena police spokesperson sergeant Andreas Nghiyolwa said the incident occurred over the weekend at Okavela village. The police officer stated that the suspect allegedly attacked his sister with a wooden...
The Department of Legal Aid in the Ministry of Justice has refused to pay a psychiatrist to testify in a murder trial involving one of his patients. Similarly, the ministry also declined to foot the bill of N$43 000 Dr Reinhardt Sieberhagen is charging to testify in the murder trial of former teacher Patrick Geingob,...
High Court Judge Orben Sibeya, dismissed the application with costs on a party-to-party basis in which Tjitemisa and Associates sought to avoid paying a former employee her dues. Gelia Etty Nyandoro, a Zimbabwean national, was employed at Tjitemisa and Associates from 22 January 2014 to 31 August 2021. After her departure, the firm petitioned the...
A former police officer was sentenced to an effective 25-year imprisonment term by the Windhoek High Court yesterday for raping his then 15-year-old biological daughter. Judge Claudia Claasen sentenced the 54-year-old man, who may not be identified to protect the identity of the victim, to 18 years’ imprisonment on the rape conviction and seven years...
Iuze Mukube Acting regional magistrate Ingrid Unengu sent Abiatar Ismael Akawa to prison for 15 years on the charges of murder and discharging a firearm. The sentence was handed down at the Windhoek Regional Court on Friday. On the count of murder, Akawa (42) was sentenced to 20 years with five years conditionally suspended.On discharging...
State Advocate Ed Marondedze yesterday applied to acting Windhoek High Court judge Moses Chinhengo to stay the main trial and any further applications by former attorney general and justice minister Edward Sakeus Shanghala until the finalisation of his constitutionality challenge on the judge’s appointment. Shanghala petitioned the Supreme Court after Chinhengo dismissed his application to...
Iuze Mukube Windhoek High Court judges Herman January and Philanda Christiaan dismissed a rape charge against Dennis Noa (29) on Friday. This arose from an appeal to the High Court by Noa against an eight-year rape sentence meted out by Windhoek Regional Court magistrate Victor Nyazo earlier. The former intern medical doctor was convicted of...