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The Bachelor in Namibia
Swakop-moordverdagte in Karasburg vasgetrek Marshallino Beukes
‘n Moeder se vasberadenheid om haar seun se moordenaar aan die pen te laat ry, asook die wakker optrede deur die Namibiese polisie, het kort voor Nuwejaar gelei tot die inhegtenisneming in Karasburg, van die verdagte in die Steven Eigab-moordsaak. Page 2
Land invaders adamant
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Double accident
Eigab is op 7 Junie 2014 in Swakopmund se Mondesa woonbuurt met ‘n mes doodgesteek, na ‘n rusie tussen hom en ‘n vriend. Die oorledene het op die toneel aan die wond beswyk en die verdagte het op die vlug geslaan. Volgens wyle Eigab se familie is die verdagte bekend aan die polisie, maar tog het dit voorgekom asof die saak ‘n
doodloopstraat bereik het, met geen leidrade wat opgevolg is om die voortvlugtende op te spoor nie. Mevrou Sophia Eigas (56), die oorledene se moeder, het op ‘n stadium aan die koerant genoem dat dit vir haar voel asof die betrokke ondersoekbeampte, in daardie stadium, geen snars omgegee het om inligting (wat deur haarself aan hom verskaf is) op te volg nie.
Sy het haar na die Erongo polisie se hoofkwartier in Walvisbaai gewend en haar ontevredenheid en ongelukkigheid, rakende die manier waarop die saak ondersoek word, uitgespreek. Die inhegtenisname van die verdagte het gevolg nadat ‘n familielid van die vermoorde Eigab vir die vakansie na Karasburg gereis het en per abuis verneem het dat die verdagte homself Vervolg op bladsy 2
Wyle Steven Eigab
Steven Eigab se ouers tydens sy begrafnis
Culpable homicide investigated after dreadful crash Marshallino Beukes & Piquet Jacobs
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Swing gate solution
A case of culpable homicide is in progress, following the horrific crash on the Henties Bay/ Swakopmund road, where six people were killed on 29 December 2014.
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Walvisbaai Rugby reg vir aksie
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Jandre Dippenaar
Deputy Commissioner Andreas Nelumbu yesterday confirmed again that the Erongo police are investigating the matter. “This is standard procedure for all vehicle accidents, where people are killed,” Nelumbu commented. He noted that all the witnesses will be questioned and a docket will then be forwarded to the office of the Prosecutor General, whereafter the PG will decide if anyone should be charged with culpable homicide. He further noted that one of the survivors, and driver of one of the vehicles, Mr Jandre Dippenaar, is still in hospital and that they have to give him a chance to recover, before he might also be questioned. He has
emphasised the fact that it is not an obligation to question Mr Dippenaar. Six people, three German tourists and three Namibians, were killed in the accident Dippenaar was involved in. The Ford Ranger bakkie, in which the tourists were travelling, collided with the Toyota FJ Cruiser driven by Dippenaar, which burst into flames on impact. In this fatal head-on collision, the German tourists, Dr Marcus Joschko (48), his wife, Dr Stephanie Dorothea Schemuch-Joschko (49) and his daughter, Alexandra Marlene Joschko (19) were killed. Three Namibians also lost their lives and were identified as
Dina Pretorius (30), Charlene Schoombe (24) and the 27-year old JC Horn. The daughter and sister of the late German tourists, Antonia Joschko (16) was seriously injured, but has already been discharged from the Welwitschia Hospital in Walvis Bay and has returned to Germany. The gruesome head-on collision on 29 December was allegedly caused by reckless driving and speeding. There are allegations that Dippenaar had been warned by a traffic officer for speeding, shortly before the accident and that two more occupants of his vehicle had refused to drive with him from Swakopmund to Henties Bay as he was allegedly
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driving at high speed. All these allegations are being investigated. Meanwhile, according to our sources at the Roman Catholic Hospital in Windhoek, Jandre Dippenaar’s condition is improving day by day. “He is stable and improving, but still under ICU observation.” The health state of Dippenaar is being closely followed by the whole of Namibia, due to the serious nature of the charges Dippenaar could face, under which culpable homicide and alternatively a charge of
reckless or negligent driving. Unlike the 2002 accident, where millions of Namibian dollars were claimed in the case of Belgian tourists who had died, no huge funds will be paid out in the case of the German family. The law regarding such payments has changed since 2002. The MVA has made provisions to pay out N$7 000 for funeral expenses for foreigners who die in the accidents, and that would include the three German deceased.