Michael Sakuneka
LIMPOPO – A MAN (33) was sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment in the Naphuno magistrate’s court recently after he was found guilty of rape.
Michael Thani Rambau was arrested in Hlohlokwe village in Sekororo after he repeatedly raped a 19-year-old girl on August 5, 2012.
The sentence followed after Rambau kidnapped the girl by force while she was walking in the street to her home and he took her to another house in the village.
Upon arrival at the house, where he found other people sleeping, he told the person sleeping on the bed to move and then proceeded to rape his victim at gunpoint throughout the night.
Later, the young woman managed to escape and managed to reach her home at around 03:00.
The girl’s parents alerted police about the incident and the suspect was arrested.
According to Tzaneen cluster police spokesperson, Lt Col Moatshe Ngoepe, Rambau was also declared unfit to possess a firearm, his name will be listed in the National Register of Sexual Offences and he was also declared to be unsuitable to work with any children.
Ngoepe said he hoped the sentence would send a very strong message to all the rapists out there to refrain from these acts or spend a very long time, if not life, behind bars.
