Crime and Courts

Windhoek High Court Judge Shafimana Uietele on Tuesday questioned the advance payments for “consultancy work not yet done” by bail-seeking Phillipus Mwapopi. 

The application by late Ovambanderu chief Kilus Nguvauva, in which he challenged government’s decision to recognise chief Turimuro Hoveka as a traditional leader, has hit a legal bump in the road as the latter attacks the State’s amended notice of motion.

The health ministry will conduct a full investigation into the allegation of a 25-year-old woman, who lost her baby boy before delivery last Monday at Outjo district hospital, allegedly due to nurses' negligence.

The Namibian Police are investigating a case of murder in which a 45-year-old man from Tsumeb was found lying in a pool of blood with a stab wound on the right side of his stomach.

Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) at the eleventh hour of court proceedings against them on Friday, decided not to proceed with a disciplinary hearing of suspended Swakopmund constituency councillor Ciske Howard-Smith. 

The Namibian Police in the Khomas region are looking for an unknown suspect who pretended to be a police officer and took a car from a woman at the bridge behind Unam’s Hage Geingob Campus in Windhoek.

Nine suspects have been arrested after recent armed robbery cases at Okahandja Shopping Mall and the Agra outlet last week.

The organisers of the Kora All-Africa Music Awards failed to furnish the court with evidence of their alleged expenses incurred over the cancellation of the awards in 2016.

The Kasane Magistrate’s Court in Botswana yesterday ruled in favour of that country’s defence force, absolving it from gross negligence and liability for criminal litigation in the brutal killing of three Nchindo brothers and their Zambian cousin in 2020.

Same-sex couples who were fighting to have their marriages to foreign nationals, concluded outside of Namibia, recognised by Government, said yesterday’s defeat in the High Court is not a total loss.