A man accused of murdering his girlfriend at Khorixas on Christmas Eve in 2019 denied guilt on counts of murder, rape and assault in the Windhoek High Court yesterday. In a plea statement given to judge Claudia Claasen after he…

Mining activities in a part of the Kunene region where highly endangered black rhinoceroses are a tourist attraction must stop until the end of next week. This was ordered by a Windhoek High Court judge yesterday. In terms of an…

Walvis Bay resident Hans-Jörg Möller, who was fatally injured during a house robbery in June 2016, was killed in cold blood. Judge Dinnah Usiku said this during the sentencing of the four men convicted of murdering Möller yesterday. Usiku made…

Mining operations will pose a direct threat to critically endangered black rhinos in an area south-west of Khorixas. This is detailed in an urgent application filed at the Windhoek High Court by two communal conservancies, a traditional authority and a…

A Windhoek bar owner, who shot his friend after a fight, has been sentenced to a prison term of 18 years on a charge of murder. Moses Salatiel (42) received the sentence at the end of his trial in the…

The hearing of an application to have separate trials for the ten men charged in the Fishrot fraud, corruption, and racketeering case has been postponed to November. The hearing is now scheduled to take place on 11 November, after acting…

A Zambezi region farmer convicted of raping his daughter (11) has failed with an attempt to appeal against his 18-year prison term. The man’s appeal against his sentence was struck from the court roll in the Windhoek High Court last…

Two United States (US) citizens serving prison terms for the murder of a young man in Windhoek failed in an attempt to launch an appeal against their convictions and sentences. The two Americans’ applications to be allowed to appeal to…

Former minister of fisheries and marine resources Bernhard Esau will support an application for a separation of trials by three of his co-accused in the Fishrot case. Esau’s defence lawyer, Florian Beukes, informed acting judge Moses Chinhengo in the High…

The accused in the Fishrot fraud, corruption and racketeering case are not being treated equally, former justice minister and attorney general Sacky Shanghala is claiming. Shanghala makes this allegation in a sworn statement filed at the Windhoek High Court in…

Former justice minister Sacky Shanghala and two of his co-accused in the Fishrot case want to have their trial separated from that of the other accused charged with them.  Shanghala informed acting judge Moses Chinhengo in the High Court at…