Harsh sentences for rape convicts
The victims saw justice served as these offenders will be behind bars for a very long time.
Rapists, Sipho Nkosi and Manqoba Nduduzo Mathebula aged 29 and 28, were convicted yesterday by the Secunda and Nelspruit Regional Courts.
Nkosi was sentenced to 12 life sentences and an additional 35 years and another six months for rape, robbery, assault and kidnapping. He raped females between the ages of 13 and 36 during 2011 and 2014. He was also registered on the sex offenders list.
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Manqoba Nduduzo Mathebula was sentenced to two life sentences on two counts of rape and a 44-year jail sentence for housebreaking and theft.
The court heard that Mathebula targeted elderly women and teenagers who stayed alone and raped them during 2012 and 2013. In one of the incidents, he repeatedly broke into a house of a 76-year-old woman and raped her. He used the same modus operandi where he raped a 26-year-old woman.
The provincial commissioner welcomed the harsh sentences. “Fighting crime against women and children is one of the priorities of the SAPS and no crime against these vulnerable community members will go unpunished,” said the commissioner.
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