A PARTNER in one of Windhoek’s up-and-coming young law firms, Eduard Kisting, died in a car accident in the capital over the past weekend.
Kisting, who was a partner in the law firm Kauta, Basson & Kamuhanga Inc, was killed when his vehicle collided into a rock embankment along Sam Nujoma Drive and overturned on Saturday evening. It is suspected that he may have tried to turn out of the way of an oncoming vehicle that might have been on the wrong side of the road when the accident happened.He was the only occupant of the vehicle.Kisting was 37 years old.He was married, and was the father of two children – boys aged seven and ten.Kisting in May became a partner in Kauta, Basson & Kamuhanga Inc, the firm to which he had been attached for the past two and a half years.He arrived in the legal profession relatively late in his life, having studied law part-time with the University of South Africa (Unisa) while he was employed with TransNamib.He obtained his law degree from Unisa in June 2001.Kisting, then 34 years old, was admitted as a legal practitioner in Namibia in October 2002.He worked at the Office of the Government Attorney before he joined Kauta, Basson & Kamuhanga.Having grown up in Khomasdal in Windhoek, Kisting never forgot his roots.He was one of the founding trustees of the Khomasdal Education Trust, which has been lending a helping hand to young people from that residential area of the capital by sponsoring their further education after they had left school, one of his co-trustees, lawyer Ruben Philander, recounted yesterday.A funeral service for Kisting will be held in the Dawid Bezuidenhout High School’s school hall at 10h30 on Saturday.A memorial service is set to take place at the same location at 19h00 tomorrow.It is suspected that he may have tried to turn out of the way of an oncoming vehicle that might have been on the wrong side of the road when the accident happened.He was the only occupant of the vehicle.Kisting was 37 years old.He was married, and was the father of two children – boys aged seven and ten.Kisting in May became a partner in Kauta, Basson & Kamuhanga Inc, the firm to which he had been attached for the past two and a half years.He arrived in the legal profession relatively late in his life, having studied law part-time with the University of South Africa (Unisa) while he was employed with TransNamib.He obtained his law degree from Unisa in June 2001.Kisting, then 34 years old, was admitted as a legal practitioner in Namibia in October 2002.He worked at the Office of the Government Attorney before he joined Kauta, Basson & Kamuhanga.Having grown up in Khomasdal in Windhoek, Kisting never forgot his roots.He was one of the founding trustees of the Khomasdal Education Trust, which has been lending a helping hand to young people from that residential area of the capital by sponsoring their further education after they had left school, one of his co-trustees, lawyer Ruben Philander, recounted yesterday.A funeral service for Kisting will be held in the Dawid Bezuidenhout High School’s school hall at 10h30 on Saturday.A memorial service is set to take place at the same location at 19h00 tomorrow.
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