A 28-year-old woman was arrested at Ongudi Village over the weekend after she allegedly attacked her 63-year-old biological mother with a panga.

The senior citizen sustained open-cut wounds on her chest, lips, and hands and was taken to the Oshakati State Hospital.

In their weekend crime report, the police further report three attempted murders, four culpable homicides, and one murder.

In the Eenhana Constituency, 33-year-old Matias Mwetufa died after he was allegedly hit on the head with an empty bottle by a 21-year-old woman and died on the spot.

A 21-year-old mother took her life after murdering her 5-year-old daughter at the old Ombili informal settlement at Otjiwarongo in the Otjozondjupa Region on Saturday.

Police in the town were alerted to the crime between 16h50 and 17h00.

According to Regional Police Community Liaison Officer Maureen Mbeha, the deceased have been identified as Hileni Vemujendavi Virere and Winny Virere.

Mbeha says Hileni strangled her daughter to death, after which she proceeded to commit suicide with an electrical cord she tied to the roof of her shack.

The mother of a 14-year-old rape victim has accused a state prosecutor at the Rehoboth Magistrate's Court of misrepresentation.

Prosecutor Frank Tjibeba did not oppose bail in a matter in which a minor was allegedly raped by her former stepfather and subsequently became pregnant.

Tjibeba, during court proceedings, put it on record that "The complainant has filed a bail statement indicating that she has objections to bail and thereafter indicated that bail may be guaranteed with strict conditions. We thus concede to bail and propose bail of N$3000.00."

A Windhoek resident and mother of a six-year-old child is expected to appear in the Katutura Magistrate's Court tomorrow on a charge of assault.

In a video that went viral on social media, a mother from Windhoek's Lucia Street in the Greenwell Matongo residential area is seen mercilessly beating and choking her biological child as she cries for help.
 
Police Spokesperson, Deputy Commissioner Kauna Shikwambi, said the suspect was arrested and a case was opened by a Social Worker from the Ministry of Social Welfare who attended the incident.

A 25-year-old unemployed resident of Swakopmund who is a mother of 6-week-old triplets is calling on the public for assistance to help her take care of her babies.

Klementina Hangula, 25, is overwhelmed after giving birth to triplets at the Swakopmund Hospital last month.

She said she was shocked when the doctor told her she was about to deliver not one, but three bundles of joy.

The triplets are two boys and a girl who are in need of baby formula and baby clothes, among other things.

A Kavango West man allegedly murdered his biological mother after he chopped her with a hoe on the head.

Anastasia Tjangano (53) died on the spot.

According to the Namibian Police public relations department, the deceased and her son had an argument that resulted in a fatal blow.

The 25-year-old man has been arrested, and police investigations continue.

Meanwhile, a girlfriend killed her boyfriend in the Khomas Region.

24-year-old Lesley Kamwi was allegedly stabbed with a knife and killed by his 19-year-old girlfriend at Beijing Street, 7 De Laan.