Omundu Magazine

Drugs in Brownies

Deputy Commissioner Kauna Shikwambi photo courtesy of the Namibian newspaper In one of the most alarming caution the Namibian Police has released, it is warning those who buy cookies on the street that they could be laced with a drug to induce addiction. She says that they have arrested a number of people in Windhoek and Katima Mulilo selling cookies and brownies laced with the tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Some cookies and brownies laced with the drug A man 23 year old man police arrested at Pioneerspark in Windhoek had on him some 103 cookies and brownies he had been selling laced...
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Lourensia Ketji, the Pearl of Grootfontein, dies

Lourensia Ketji in front of her house in Grootfontein wearing her natural broad smile The pearl of Grootfontein, Roroo, a beautiful lady who wore a broad smile and whose life had symbolised much of the town’s charm, beauty and hospitality, died at the town of her life on the 12th May 2022. She was 55. She is survived by son Desmond Mapeseuani and daughter Eerike Rejoice, both Ketji; and six grandchildren as well as siblings Harry  Mbapeua Ketji, Kahepa Kapenaze, Betty Ketji, Kaperesende Ketji, Kapena Tjiho and Vanaune Ketji. Simon, Edward and Dau Ketji predeceased her. Desmond Ketji Eerike Rejoice...
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Riruako feared for Ovaherero’s lands

https://youtu.be/tiXbZGUfhVw Paramount Chief Kuaima Riruako shares his reading of how recognition of traditional leaders will be used to disposses Ovaherero of their land Eight years since Ovaherero Paramount Chief Kuaima Riruako died in Windhoek and his clairvoyance remains unmistaken.Ombara Otjitambi yOvaherero read the signs of Namibia’s new politics and shrunk to fear knowing how his communities were on the eve of their marginalisation. He had resisted to the deadline to file for recognition as Ombara Otjitambi of Ovaherero Traditional Authority and when they finally did at the last minute, it was in protest. Ombara Riruako knew that the new administration...
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Rapoo: The man behind the famous voice

Many people have heard his voice, listened to its story lines and thought what the person behind the voice would be like. Rapoo Murumbua takes time off from his work to record voice files that give people a lighter perspective on life. In recent years, he has added his voice to all major developments from drought outbreaks, jealousy, and intimacy to COVID-19. From his previous home in the Netherlands and the new one in the United Kingdom, this uniquely gifted orator whose sketches portray light-humour, tradition and the simplest take on the most complex of issues, Rapoo has entered many...
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Otjivize River kills three people

The Toyota pickup that was washed away on 14 April 2022 in Kunene Region Three people died when the car they were travelling in was washed away by a strong wave of water. The incident took place at the Otjivize area near Okanguati, Kunene Region, last night.   The pickup in the picture above had been carrying 12 passengers when the driver attempted to cross Otjivize River at midnight. The strong river current swept the car away and nine of the occupants swam to the river bank. But three other occupants did not make it. Members of the community, the Namibian...
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Likoro to serve his sentence

Former special advisor Vincent Likoro in court: photo courtesy of The Namibian The former special advisor sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping a colleague a Rundu has exhausted his lifelines. The Supreme Court has worked back on several irregularities that have occurred to bring his appeal of the rape conviction and sentence in order to arrive at its decision. That decision is that Likoro should not have been granted permission to appeal in the first place. Judges Christie Liebenberg and Dina Usiku had refused Likoro permission to appeal his conviction and sentence in December 2017. However, in an...
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Professor Katjiua loses urgent case

Former Paramountcy Secretary General and leader of one group of Ovaherer, Professor Mutjinde Katjiua Judge Herman Oosthuizen has dismissed with cost an urgent case Professor Mutjinde Katjiua had brought to try and stop Ombara Vipuira Kapuuo from holding a meeting at Okandjira and seizing an Ovaherero Traditional Authority account. Judge Oosthuizen says Katjiua lacks the authority to bring the application because his appointment may have been outside the Traditional Authorities Act (TAA) he sought to rely on. He says that Katjiua could find his authority as leader by premising his appointment on the appropriate provisions of the Traditional Authorities Act....
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Kauojao pleads for a fair trial

Stockley Kauojao left with co-accused Muvare Kaporo and Mathew Kakururume in D Courtroom of the Windhoek High Court The first day of the resumption of trial into Aminuis community police officer Wilfred Kazeurua’s murder followed a frustrating script for his relatives who drove long distances to attend court.Stockley Kauojao refused to testify in his defence and responded to all questions by saying that his right to fair trial was being violated. He repeatedly gave Lawyer Jan Wessels that response to a series of questions over calls Kauojao placed to Farm Brazil headman, Jesaya Daniel and witness Usiel Kamutjemo. Wessels wanted...
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Chef uses food to shed light on homelessness

One of the makeshift structure those living from the Eros Dumpsite sleep in to be close to the source of the livelihood He witnessed it first-hand. A group of about 100 people crowded two trucks offloading refuse at Eros Dumpsite to try and salvage food or items of value they could sell in order to buy food to eat. The place within an eye-shot of Windhoek’s affluent Eros residential area has become a permanent home to several people modern society has rejected with all its glamour and opulence. He and Top Score spent Saturday, 9 April 2022 at the dumpsite...
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Ombongarero ya Tjinene

“Mbara Tjiundje twe ku raera kutja matu vanga Ombara Otjitambi, nga rire ndje ya kwete mba. Ene katu nokumuhepa. Pitee mohofa,”Omuisane Omukuru Nguvitjita Toromba Ombongarero Ombara Otjitambi Vekuii Rukoro ndja isanene kOtjinene tji ya ri 27 Etengarindi 2021 oku- handjaura omazikiro worata onene morukondwa ndu wa kehi yOmbara Join Kambirongo ya yandere mozombongarero mbari nu ai sekamisa ongendo onene ohunga nowini wehi mOrukondwa rwa Tjinene. Ombara Otjitambi yOvaherero, Advokaat Vekuii Rukoro, oruhindo rwe notjiwana va woronganene pu Ngauzepo pu pa ri apa isanenwa ombongarero yehepu. Ombara Join Kambirongo, ovayandjaruvara novemukongorere va woronganene pOkomando yOuhonapare wOva- herero mOtjinene pu va haamisire...
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