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namib times SERVING THE COASTAL COMMUNITY SINCE 1958 NO 6846 FRIDAY 26 APRIL 2019 Tel: +264 64 - 205854 / +264 64 - 461866 /Fax: +264 64 - 204813 / 064 - 461824 / Website: www.namibtimes.net
Sea Shepherd activist group’s ship at anchor off Walvis Bay: UNDETECTED
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Oil & Gas Conference
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Staff in fear after burglary and threatening messages at Mondesa Clinic
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Locker vom Hocker
NIMT-killer arrested An instructor of the Namibia Institute of Mining and Technology (NiMT) is in police custody as the only suspect in the murders on 15 April of the Director of the Institute Eckart Mueller and his deputy, Heimo Hellwig. Mueller and Hellwig died in a hail of bullets The suspect was transferred in custody to Swaearly on the morning of 15 April as they arrived kopmund and at the time of going to press at work at NiMT at Arandis. They were gunned yesterday investigators were wrapping up chardown with a 9mm handgun and a total of eight ges against the accused. He is expected to make a shots were fired. Both died of multiple gunshot first appearance in the Swakopmund magistrate’s wounds to the lower abdomen and head. court at the latest today on two murder charges. Shortly after the murders the Police were on the tracks of a NIMT-instructor who was not happy with his transfer from Tsumeb Campus to Keetmanshoop. During the course of the investigation this employee was arrested for several violations of the Namibian Arms and Ammunition Act. A joint-memorial service for the late Eckhardt Whilst in custody the breakthrough came - he is Mueller and Heimo Hellwig takes place on also the suspect in the murders of Mueller and Tuesday (30 April) at 10:00 at the MultiPurpose Centre in Mondesa. Hellwig at Arandis.
Mueller and Hellwig memorial service
On holiday but not out of action Pages 12 & 13
Erongo u/20 Netball champs To see two Presidents on vacation, casually strolling along the wharf is not an everyday sight. However, this was the case in Walvis Bay this week. Reports on pages 2 & 5
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