{"id":241522,"date":"2026-08-19T20:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-very-weak-case-against-namdia-robbery-accused-lawyer-claims\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T20:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:16:22","slug":"namibia-very-weak-case-against-namdia-robbery-accused-lawyer-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-very-weak-case-against-namdia-robbery-accused-lawyer-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: &#8216;Very Weak&#8217; Case Against Namdia Robbery Accused, Lawyer Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\"><em>The case against one of the men facing charges in connection with a fatal armed robbery at the Windhoek head office of the Namib Desert Diamonds (Namdia) in January last year is &#8220;very weak&#8221;, a lawyer argued in the Windhoek High Court yesterday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">&#8220;The case is very weak, with respect. Very, very weak,&#8221; defence lawyer Veiko Alexander, representing former Namdia protection officer Joel Angula, remarked during a hearing of oral arguments on a bail appeal by Angula.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Angula (47) is appealing against a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608190194.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 case against one of the men facing charges in connection with a fatal armed robbery at the Windhoek head office of the Namib Desert Diamonds (Namdia) in January last year is &#8220;very weak&#8221;, a lawyer argued in the Windhoek High Court yesterday. &#8220;The case is very weak, with respect. Very, very weak,&#8221; defence lawyer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":241523,"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":[7083,258,256,6683,8117,8000,5890,4706,724,257,1460,254,13849],"class_list":["post-241522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-case","tag-claims","tag-lawyer","tag-namdia","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-robbery","tag-south-africa-today","tag-weak"],"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\/241522","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=241522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}