Serial rapist sentenced to life
Bongani Mnguni (28) was sentenced to life in the Pretoria High court on Wednesday. He gained his victims' trust by promising them jobs then later raped, assaulted and killed one of them.
Tshegofatso Ngobeni
A 28-year-old serial rapist was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday.
Bongani Mnguni, a former security guard and money lender, was sentenced to three life terms by Judge Jody Kollapen.
Mguni tricked women by promising to find them jobs, then led them into the bushes in Daveyton and Tsakane, where he raped them.
He was found guilty of murdering one of his victims, Nokuthula Islam (19) whom he raped and assaulted by hitting her on the head with a broken toilet bowl.
Islam had informed her family that a man called Bongani, who had offered her a job, would introduce her to the company manager on 21 August 2013.
She was found naked and unconscious in a veld by herdsmen the next day and rushed to hospital.
Her family had searched for her for a month before she was found in hospital. She died a month later without ever gaining consciousness.
Mnguni’s DNA was found on her.
In court, he claimed he was in a relationship with Islam and had fathered a child with her.
But the court rejected this after DNA proved he was not the father of Islam’s two-year-old daughter.
He alleged he and Islam had had consensual intercourse on 20 August 2013 and denied any knowledge of what might have led to her death.
Judge Kollapen said Mnguni had a lack of appreciation for the agony he had caused the women.
His crimes were carefully orchestrated, despite Mnguni stating in court the women owed him money and slept with him in lieu of payment.
After raping the women, Mnguni would ask them if they enjoyed it.
Mnguni was sentenced to a further 83 years in jail, to run concurrently with his life sentences.
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