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- Two men in Limpopo were convicted of rape in two separate cases Thursday.
- Mpho Mokgweng received 10 years for the rape of a 17-year-old boy whom he threatened with a toy gun.
- Charles Mathibela received 35 years for the rape and murder of a 45-year-old woman.
A Limpopo man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the rape of a teenager whom he threatened with a toy gun.
Mpho Mokgweng, 24, appeared before the Thabazimbi Regional Court on Thursday to receive the sentence. He was arrested after he threatened a 17-year-old girl with a toy gun in April last year and then raped her.
“The defendant threatened a 17-year-old girl with a toy gun and forced her to go to the nearby bushes where he raped her. The victim was attending a religious service in the informal settlement of Matlekereng when she was attacked,” said the spokesman for the police, Colonel Moatshe Ngoepe. .
Mokgweng was also sentenced to five years in prison for robbery in a separate matter. He had also been declared unable to carry a firearm.
Meanwhile, also in the province, in the Polokwane High Court, a 20-year-old was sentenced to 35 years for the rape and murder of a woman in 2019.
Charles Mathibela was visiting his stepfather in July last year when he assaulted and raped a 45-year-old woman who lived on the same property. At the time of the incident, Mathibela and the victim were the only ones in the compound.
“He overpowered her and threw her on the concrete floor until she lost consciousness. He dragged her into his own house, stabbed her with a knife and raped her. The defendant then took the victim’s cell phone, locked her inside the house and fled. ” the scene, “Ngoepe said.
The woman’s body was discovered by her daughter the next day and Mathibela was subsequently arrested.
He also received a sentence of 15 years for aggravated robbery and five years for trespassing with intent to violate.
