{"id":242457,"date":"2026-08-28T08:33:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-state-considers-pleas-in-windhoek-transgender-murder-case\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T08:33:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:33:54","slug":"namibia-state-considers-pleas-in-windhoek-transgender-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-state-considers-pleas-in-windhoek-transgender-murder-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: State Considers Pleas in Windhoek Transgender Murder Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>The state is to consider pleas offered by two men accused of brutally murdering a transgender woman in Windhoek two years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">The state and defence lawyers representing murder accused Elias Nandomba (20) and Mervin Beukes (21) are still sorting out the possibility of guilty pleas to be offered by the two accused, deputy prosecutor general Antonia Verhoef informed judge Philanda Christiaan during a pretrial appearance by Nandomba and Beukes in the Windhoek High Court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Nandomba and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608280067.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 state is to consider pleas offered by two men accused of brutally murdering a transgender woman in Windhoek two years ago. The state and defence lawyers representing murder accused Elias Nandomba (20) and Mervin Beukes (21) are still sorting out the possibility of guilty pleas to be offered by the two accused, deputy prosecutor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":242458,"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":[258,256,6683,9524,304,4706,724,257,18361,254,6017,3618,1582],"class_list":["post-242457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-case","tag-considers","tag-murder","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-pleas","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-transgender","tag-windhoek"],"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\/242457","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=242457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}