ONGWEDIVA – The Namibian Police recorded 110 551 criminal cases countrywide during the 2023/24 financial year. The cases range from robbery, rape, violence against women and children, and other forms of domestic violence, murder, theft of motor-vehicles and livestock, dealing in drugs, housebreaking, and theft. This was revealed by Inspector General of NamPol, Lieutenant General...
Two farmworkers accused of killing their employers in 2018 appeared briefly in the Windhoek High Court yesterday, for the commencement of their trial today. The suspects, 35-year-old Bernadus Afrikaner and Salatiel Unaeb (47) appeared before Judge Naomi Shivute, who informed them about the commencement of the trial today. They face 11 charges including murder, rape...
A 38-year-old man who pleaded guilty to murdering his former girlfriend by stabbing her 36 times with a sheep shear wants the court to have mercy on him. Shaun Tieties told Windhoek High Court Judge Claudia Claasen that he found God in prison and is no longer the same man he was before. Tieties pleaded guilty...
OHANGWENA – The Ohangwena Magistrate’s Court convicted a 30-year-old woman for falsifying her teaching qualifications as well as attempting to kill a colleague in her car in 2021. The head of the crime investigations unit in Ohangwena region, Deputy Commissioner Zachariah Amakali, said Fransian Mwetufa was convicted last Wednesday on counts of forgery and attempted...
Lawyers representing three Zimbabwean nationals accused of murdering a nine-year-old girl and burning her body in a municipal skip container are accusing the police of lies and deceit during the initial investigation. Defence lawyers Milton Engelbrecht, Mbanga Siyomunji and Joseph Andreas flat-out told Commissioner Nelius Becker, Inspector Lodewyk van Graan and Inspector Natangwe Erastus that...
The Rehoboth Town Council emerged victorious yesterday when the Windhoek High Court set aside the N$1 million compensation the arbitrator had awarded its former chief executive officer, Christoph/Uirab. On 15 September 2022, the arbitrator ordered the town council to pay /Uirab N$219 110 worth four months’ salary, N$161 856 for leave gratuity,N$102 967.90 for pro...
OTJIWARONGO – Two government officials, arrested on Saturday at Otjiwarongo for allegedly stealing a government vehicle, were on Tuesday released on bail by the Otjiwarongo Magistrate’s Court. The accused are Julius Ngweda (45) and Joseph Shatilwe (49). Ngweda is the ministry’s spokesperson. According to the charge- sheet from the court, seen by Nampa, the two...
The trial of three Zimbabwean citizens has descended into a trial-within-a-trial. This is after the accused persons disputed written and oral statements they made to police officers at the time of their arrest. Edward and Caroline Nkata, and Rachel Kureva told Windhoek High Court Judge Phillanda Cristiaan the admissions were made without them being informed...
Health minister Kalumbi Shangula was excused from testifying in the lawsuit brought by public tender magnate Shapwa Kanyama and his wife Beata against a retired northern-based nurse, Mathilde Kadhikwa. Kadhikwa subpoenaed Shangula and health executive director Ben Nangombe to testify in the suit against her for alleged defamatory statements against the power couple. Kanyama and...
KEETMANSHOOP – The Namibian Police at Bethanie are looking for three suspects who allegedly tied up a 61-year-old farmer and robbed him. Police crime investigations coordinator for the //Kharas region Nikodemus Mbango said in a crime report issued to Nampa on Sunday the alleged robbery happened on Saturday around 19h00 at Farm Middledam in the...