THREE rapists were slapped with jail terms between 20 years
and life imprisonment.
The Regional Court in Mankweng outside Polokwane has given long jail terms to two men, aged 25 and 34 for separate incidents of criminal activities.
Stanley Bethuel Monyepao was sentenced to life imprisonment for rape, a further five years imprisonment for attempted murder and twelve months imprisonment for theft.
“His sentencing comes after the accused raped a 28 years old woman on 2017-08-08 at about 10:00 at Ga-Dikgale village in the Sebayeng Policing area outside Polokwane.
The accused arrived at the victims' house and requested money from her. When she failed to assist him with money, he threatened her, dragged her to an old dwelling, assaulted her, stabbed her on the face with a knife and raped her,” Colonel Moatshe Ngoepe said.
Meanwhile Nkgopo Modipane, was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for two counts of rape that occurred between 2017 and 2018.
“In 2017, the accused came across two ladies walking along the street at Ga-Mothapo village in the Nobody area under the Mankweng Policing area. He then started to throw them with stones. They ran away and he chased them, grabbed one of them, dragged her to the nearby bushes and raped her,” Ngoepe said.
In another incident, the same accused, Alfred Modipane threatened the victim with a pick handle and demanded to sleep with her.
She refused, he dragged her to his room while assaulting her and raped her.
In another case, the Mokopane Regional Court sentenced Comfort Kgobe to life imprisonment for raping an 8-year-old girl.
Ngoepe said, the hefty jail term emanated from an incident that occurred on the 22nd of September 2018, at a village outside Mokopane.
