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...
A 36-year-old medical doctor who was accused of raping his seven-year-old son, and his co-accused 58-year-old mother, were on Friday granted N$15000 bail each. Magistrate Immanuel Udjombala granted bail after a formal bail hearing and ordered that the applicants do not interfere with State witnesses or the investigation. Udjombala said it would not be in...
Disgraced former fisheries minister Bernhard Esau and his wife, Swamma Esau emerged victorious yesterday in the Windhoek High Court in their fight to have access to their funds frozen by the State. Judge Beatrix de Jager ordered the curators managing the assets of Esau and his wife to release more than N$1.2 million to allow...
Windhoek High Court Judge Dinah Usiku on Monday convicted four men andacquitted another, in connection with the murder of 50-year-old Hans-Jorg Möller and the attempted murder of his wife. The incident occurred in June 2016 atthe couple’s home in Walvis Bay in the Erongo region. Panduleni Gotlieb, David Tashiya, David Shekundja and EllyHinaivali face charges...
OSHAKATI – A 15-year-old girl is pregnant after allegedly being raped by a pastor on two separate occasions, this paper has learned. The man of cloth presides over a Pentecostal church in northern Namibia. Oshana police head of criminal investigations deputy commissioner Fredrick Ndjadila confirmed the incident. The accused (34) was arrested last month at...
Iuze Mukube Nearly 200 000 kg of cannabis was confiscated by the police in June, Namibian Police spokesperson Kauna Shikwambi revealed in her monthly drug report. She stated that 112 people were arrested in connection with the drug busts. She, however, did not reveal the monetary street value of the drugs this time around. “Drugs...
A City of Windhoek emergency services employee lost his life in a motor vehicle accident on Sunday morning after he and another colleague attended a call-out. The employee has been identified as Methusalah Simataa Khama. He joined the City in 2008. According to City of Windhoek spokesperson, Lydia Amutenya, the accident involved a municipality ambulance...