An association representing members of Namibia’s Hai||om San community has filed a lawsuit in which it is claiming N$2.8 trillion from Namibia’s government because of the expulsion of members of the community from their ancestral land at Etosha National Park.…
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A Hardap region resident accused of raping a four-month-old baby says he was not at the scene where the alleged sexual assault over which he is charged took place. On 12 November 2016, when the baby was allegedly raped at…
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Three judges from Zimbabwe and Botswana have been appointed as judges of Namibia’s High Court. The Office of the Judiciary announced yesterday that a former judge of the High Court of Botswana, Gabriel Komboni, has been appointed as a judge…
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Debt collection firm RedForce Debt Management and the Rundu Town Council will have to wait two more weeks for a judgement on a claim for N$9.2 million RedForce is pursuing against the council in the Windhoek High Court. The judgement…
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The director general of the Namibia Central Intelligence Service (NCIS), Bamba Nghipandua, is asking the High Court to order that a defamation case about a vetting process in which he is being sued for N$1.8 million should be heard in…
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Two men accused of robbing and murdering a Windhoek resident at the city’s Avis Dam outdoor recreation area in July 2020 voluntarily made confessions after their arrests, two magistrates testified in the Windhoek High Court this week. Magistrate Helvi Shikalepo…
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The state has shown it has evidence implicating former Namib Desert Diamonds (Namdia) security officer Joel Angula in connection with a fatal armed robbery that took place at the Namdia head office in Windhoek in January last year. This was…
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Two women arrested on charges in connection with alleged fraud and corruption involving the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (Namcor) have been granted bail after two weeks in police custody. Martha Antindi (56), the mother of Victor Malima, who is…
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A former magistrate charged in a protracted rape trial in the Windhoek High Court has failed with an attempt to get discharged on most of the counts on which he is being prosecuted. Applications in which former magistrate Jaco Kennedy…
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Horrendous. Brutal. Merciless. These were the words judge Naomi Shivute used yesterday to describe the murder of a five-year-old boy, Dantali Eiseb, at Walvis Bay three years ago, before she sentenced the boy’s stepfather to an effective prison term of…
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A Walvis Bay resident who admitted to murdering his five-year-old stepson through a brutal assault three years ago was sentenced to an effective prison term of 30 years on Thursday. Judge Naomi Shivute sentenced Riddick Narib (33) in the Windhoek…
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The state will have to start afresh if it wants to continue with an attempt to appeal against a ruling in which former National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (Namcor) manager Cedric Willemse was granted bail in an amount of N$200…
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