{"id":262863,"date":"2019-04-06T07:44:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T05:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=262863"},"modified":"2019-04-06T07:44:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T05:44:41","slug":"hanse-himarwa-corruption-case-wraps-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=262863","title":{"rendered":"Hanse-Himarwa corruption case wraps up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eba Kandovazu<br \/>\nTHE trial of Katrina Hanse-Himarwa was postponed until May 22 for the state and defense counsel to prepare their heads of arguments that will be submitted on that date.<br \/>\nThis was announced shortly after the defense closed its case, with the last witness Lydia Ganeb, who was the Deputy Mayor of Mariental when the allegations against Hanse-Himarwa started making rounds.<br \/>\n<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Throughout the trial, Hanse-Himarwa maintained her innocence. The state is expected to file its heads of argument on 17 May and the defence will do so on 20 May.<br \/>\nHanse-Himarwa, who was governor at the time of the alleged corruption, claims that the Anit-corruption Commission made concerted efforts to incriminate her, in the manner in which they carried out their investigations. She further claim throughout testifying in her own defence that the witness statements contain striking similarities and that there was a clear connivance against her.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 480px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-262863-1\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/WhatsApp.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/WhatsApp.mp4\">https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/WhatsApp.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Video: Education Minister Katrina Hanse-Himarwa at the Windhoek High Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eba Kandovazu THE trial of Katrina Hanse-Himarwa was postponed until May 22 for the state and defense counsel to prepare their heads of arguments that will be submitted on that date. This was announced shortly after the defense closed its case, with the last witness Lydia Ganeb, who was the Deputy Mayor of Mariental when &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":262868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hanse-Himarwa corruption case wraps up - Informant\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"THE trial of Katrina Hanse-Himarwa was postponed until May 22 for the state and defense counsel to prepare their heads of arguments that will be submitted on that date.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=262863\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hanse-Himarwa corruption case wraps up - 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