Iuze Mukube
The following cases appeared on the mentions roll this week before Windhoek High Court Deputy Judge President Hannelie Prinsloo for case management on Wednesday.
Cannabis case
The case of David Strauss van Der Lindern, Armand Carel Schults, and Johannes Kamati was postponed to 17 February 2026.
The three face charges of possession and/or dealing in illicit drugs, organised crime and racketeering in connection with operating a huge cannabis plantation with an estimated street value of more than N$52 million at a commercial farm at Hochfeld in the Okahandja district of the Otjozondjupa region.
Murder case
The case of Wentzel Maarsdorp was postponed to 18 November 2026 to allow the accused’s lawyer Petrus Grusshaber to reply to the State’s pre-trial memorandum. At a prior proceeding, Prinsloo had raised the same concern about the case not moving since the case came to the High Court earlier this year.
The new lawyer will familiarise himself with the case docket in the meantime before the next appearance. Maasdorp faces charges including murder, read with the Combating of Violence Act, two counts of robbery with aggravating circumstances, two charges of fraud, alternatively theft, and counts of defeating or obstructing the course of justice, housebreaking with intent to steal and theft, and assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
The charges are in connection with a fatal incident that took place at the flat of Namibia University of Science and Technology employee Delia Weimers-Maasdorp (40) in the Klein Windhoek area during the evening of 25 April 2024.
Mental observation
The case of Matende Ndjunga, who in a previous proceeding requested for mental observation, was postponed also to 18 November 2026.
The judge informed the accused that he will only be considered for admission in January for psychiatric evaluation due to lack of space. Ndjunga, an Angolan national, faces two charges, including murder and defeating the course of justice in relation to the murder of his romantic partner, Theresia Nando Kapinga, between 12 and 13 October 2022 in Rundu.
It is alleged that he struck Kapinga on the head with a pounding stick and set her body on fire.
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