Overview
- A Limpopo man, 20, received seven life terms for raping girls aged nine, 11 and 13, with an additional 15 years for robbery ordered to run concurrently and a declaration that he is unfit to possess a firearm.
- In the Limpopo prosecution, the state led victim testimonies, J88 medical reports and probation‑facilitated impact statements, with the presiding officer endorsing the prescribed life terms after finding no compelling reasons to deviate.
- A 47-year-old from Tsakane was sentenced to four life terms for repeatedly raping a 13-year-old cancer patient, whom the NPA says he impregnated and infected with HIV, and he was barred from working with children and placed on the sexual‑offender register.
- The Tsakane matter, provisionally withdrawn after the 2016 arrest and reinstated in 2020, ended in life terms after the court rejected pleas for leniency over ill health and found a lack of remorse and severe aggravating factors.
- The NPA welcomed the rulings as delivering justice and deterrence, and on Wednesday a separate KZN case saw a father sentenced to life for raping his teenage daughter, with firearm disqualification and entry on the sex‑offender register.