The police officer accused of raping a detainee in a holding cell will spend the next two months behind bars after his bail application was denied. Siyabonga Mbane was arrested after a 26-year-old woman reported the rape case on 29 November. ALSO READ | Centane man rape and burns a 12-year-old Read more
The regional court heard how Ayanda Lembede preyed on two schoolgirls aged eight and nine between 2021 and 2022. It’s understood the 37-year-old Lembede threatened to killed the children if they told anyone. KZN NPA spokesperson Natasha Kara says one of the girls eventually confided in her mother. The other Read more
The Acting Provincial Commissioner of the SAPS in Mpumalanga, Major General (Dr) Zeph Mkhwanazi has welcomed the 15 year sentence imposed upon Pikinini Solvent Phesane (25) for the heinous crime of rape. The sentencing was handed down on Thursday, 21 November 2024, regarding the Kamhlushwa case. The court heard that Read more
The Gqeberha regional court on Wednesday sentenced Nkululeko Baxana from Addo to life imprisonment for raping a 13-year-old girl three years ago. “The victim was called by the man she knew and respected as an older neighbour living a few houses away.” “He asked her to come with him, claiming Read more
Former postal worker Luyanda Botha appeared in the Wynberg magistrate’s court on Friday, which heard a new witness would take the stand in the attempted rape case against him dating back to 2014. Botha is serving life imprisonment for the 2019 rape and murder of University of Cape Town student Read more
A man accused of raping and killing six-year-old Amantle Samane limped into court on Friday claiming he had been “badly” assaulted in prison. Pethe Sara Simia, who appeared under heavy police guard at the Protea magistrate’s court to face charges of rape and murder, asked to be released on bail. Read more
A Heidelberg attorney who allegedly repeatedly raped a 13-year-old girl he “bought” from her mother pleaded not guilty on Wednesday. Carel Benjamin Schoeman, 35, is a co-accused in the case of a 38-year-old mother who allegedly forced her two minor children into prostitution. He spent most of Wednesday with the Read more
Chief Jongintaba Mtirara’s mother-in-law was gunned down and five pupils were raped in an Eastern Cape village in the past 24 hours. Nkosikazi Nogcinile Thenjiwe Mtitara, 71, was fatally shot on Tuesday night at Mqhekezweni Great Place in the Mqhekezweni administrative area, outside Mthatha, by two men wearing balaclavas. Police Read more
Soweto residents has promised to avenge for Amantle Semane’s death. According to Daily Sun, Residents from Orlando East have vowed to pay for the suspect’s bail and then take matters into their own, should the Protea Magistrates Court grant him bail on Friday, 1 November. The 24-year-old suspect is accused Read more
An Eastern Cape teenager, who brutally raped and murdered a two-year-old, was sentenced to an effective 25 years in jail. Frans Hendricks, 18, was sentenced in the High Court of South Africa sitting in Makhanda in the Eastern Cape. The National Prosecuting Authority said the toddler was raped and killed Read more