{"id":199333,"date":"2025-06-02T13:03:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T11:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-two-men-get-double-life-sentences-for-gruesome-koes-farm-murders\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T13:03:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T11:03:56","slug":"namibia-two-men-get-double-life-sentences-for-gruesome-koes-farm-murders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-two-men-get-double-life-sentences-for-gruesome-koes-farm-murders\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Two Men Get Double Life Sentences for Gruesome Ko\u00ebs Farm Murders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>The murder of an elderly couple at their farm near Ko\u00ebs in the \/\/Kharas region in February 2018 was a cruel and gruesome crime.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">This was a remark made by judge Dinnah Usiku before she sentenced the two men convicted of the double murder, Julius Arndt (47) and Andries Afrikaner (44), both to two terms of imprisonment for life on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Arndt and Afrikaner were found guilty on two charges of murder, a count of housebreaking and robbery with aggravating circumstances, a charge of rape and a charge&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506020277.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The murder of an elderly couple at their farm near Ko\u00ebs in the \/\/Kharas region in February 2018 was a cruel and gruesome crime. This was a remark made by judge Dinnah Usiku before she sentenced the two men convicted of the double murder, Julius Arndt (47) and Andries Afrikaner (44), both to two terms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7053,10402,20789,51500,6448,6801,16351,4706,724,257,9735,254],"class_list":["post-199333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-double","tag-farm","tag-gruesome","tag-koes","tag-life","tag-men","tag-murders","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-sentences","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}