Families of the victims of the recent shack fire in the Tulinawa and Mondesa residential areas in Swakopmund are still traumatised and left at the mercy of good Samaritans. The incident occurred on one property at the intersection of Monica Geingos and Stefanus Shipanga streets and spread to other properties, leaving 42 people in the...
Floris Steenkamp THE memorial service is underway at the Swakopmund airfield at 14:00 today for 54-year-old Jacques Jacobs, the pilot who was killed in a helicopter crash at the holiday town on Monday afternoon. Jacobs was test flying a Robinson-44 helicopter when the aircraft went down, also killing 29-year-old Dirk von Weidts, who was soon...
The Erongo Police have released the names of the two people who died in a helicopter accident near the Swakopmund airport. One of the deceased was 54-year-old Jacques Jacobs, a Chief Pilot and Pilot Instructor at the Flying School Company. 29-year-old Dirk Von Weidts, an aviation engineer, also perished in the accident. He was from...
The mass funeral and final send-off of the 16 family members who died of what is suspected to have been poisonous porridge, took place at Kayova Cemetery in the Kavango East Region on Saturday. The final journey of the deceased whose incident sent shockwaves throughout the entire country, particularly the two Kavango regions, started with...
Retired SWANU MP Usutuaije Maamberua has reiterated the call to enact a Genocide Memory Law to recognize the 1904-1908 genocide victims formally. Should it come to fruition one day, the Genocide Memory Law will deem actions that will be found in the denial of the genocide as being against the public interest and must be criminalized....