RAPE survivors were left disappointed when the sentencing of Mzansi's worst serial rapist, Nkosinathi Phakathi, was postponed.
The survivors braved the morning cold to attend the case in the North Gauteng High sitting in Palm Ridge Regional Court on Monday, 27 March, but they were told to come back the following day.
The court heard that the clinical psychologist's report was not yet ready.
Prosecutor Salome Scheepers spoke to the group of survivors who were gathered in the court gallery. She explained that it was part of the law that Phakathi gets assessed and the report given to the court before he was sentenced.
She said she could oppose the postponement, but she did not want to give the convicted rapist loopholes to use to appeal the matter.
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The women with teary eyes nodded as Scheepers spoke to them.
Phakathi (37) was found guilty of 91 counts of rape, five counts of attempted rape, eight counts of compelled rape where he forced children to commit sexual act and watch him rape, 43 of kidnapping and several of theft, pointing of firearm and assault in November last year.
Phakathi pleaded guilty to all 148 charges he faced.
Acting Judge Lesego Makolomakwe returned a guilty conviction after she was satisfied that serial rapist pleaded guilty freely and voluntarily.
Phakathi told the court in his plea statement that he threatened his victims, mostly school children between 12 and 16 years, with violence and forced them to take off their clothes and then raped them.
The crimes were committed in Benoni, Daveyton, Putfontein and Crystal Park areas in a reign of terror that began in 2012 and came to an end on 17 March 2021, when cops arrested him in Barcelona, Etwatwa.
