Crime and Courts

Former CEO of the Road Contractors Company, Kelly Nghixulifwa and two of his business associates, Anna Ndoroma and Hafeni Nginamwaami, intend to apply for charges against them to be dropped.

The unlawful arrest, detention, and assault carried out by members of the Namibian Police on a Grootfontein businessman, Tuhafeni ‘Small Boss’ Simon is set to cost government more than N$140 000.

The Windhoek High Court yesterday sentenced a man, who poured petrol on his girlfriend and 13-month-old daughter and set them alight to 28 years imprisonment for her death and attempted murder of the minor.

Windhoek High Court Judge Christie Liebenberg Monday ordered that Steven Mulundu (22), brother of Azaan Madisia (30) accused of murdering Shannon Ndatega Wasserfall has a case to answer in the trial.

A 25-year-old man, who is facing a murder charge for killing his biological father, was denied bail when he appeared in the Katima Mulilo magistrate court yesterday. 

A Walvis Bay woman is fighting tooth and nail to stop a local commercial bank from attaching the residence she and her two minor children called their home for the last five years.

Panduleni Gotlieb (accused 1) wanted Kaurivi to recall a witness that already testified in the trial during the State’s case. The lawyer explained to Panduleni that it can only happen in extraordinary circumstances that a State witness can be recalled, but the latter insisted and Kaurivi had no option than to withdraw as legal counsel. Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku then postponed the matt

The Khomas police are concerned about the skyrocketing cases of robbery, and said they are hard at work in pursuance of criminals involved in two robbery cases. One involves a Chinese national, who lost N$600 000 in cash on Monday.

Deputy prosecutor general Antonia Verhoef has been establishing the chain of custody of the various exhibits, seized from the room where the two American citizens, accused of the assassin-like murder of Andre Heckmair in Windhoek in January 2011 stayed.

The defence counsel of two American citizens accused of the assassin-like murder of Andre Heckmair in Windhoek in January 2011 questioned what they called the total demolition of the Constitutional rights of their clients.