A 35-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Groblersdal Regional Court in Limpopo, South Africa, over the r*pe and assault of a 90-year-old woman.
The court heard that on July
31, 2022, Ephraim Matshela Madiba broke into the house of the elderly woman at
Elandskraal and found a machete in the victim’s bedroom.
The National Prosecuting
Authority (NPA) Regional Spokesperson, Limpopo Division, Mashudu Malabi-Dzhangi,
in a statement on Wednesday, February 28, 2024, said Madiba assaulted the old
woman with the machete before r*ping her.
He thereafter fled the scene
with the said machete.
Limpopo provincial police
spokesperson, Colonel Malesela Ledwaba, said the police were alerted about the
incident, and they opened cases of r*pe and assault with intent to cause
grievous bodily harm.
The nonagenarian victim was
taken to a local hospital for medical treatment.
"The r*pe case was
transferred to Mokopane family violence, child protection and sexual offences
unit and assigned to Sergeant Lesetja Langa for further investigation,” said
Ledwaba.
At the time, Madiba was traced
by police and arrested as a suspect in the heinous crime.
“Police also recovered the
panga with blood stains, which was used to assault the victim,” said Ledwaba.
The Groblersdal Regional Court
sentenced Madiba to life imprisonment for the r*pe and an additional 24 months
in jail for the assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
The sentences will be served
concurrently.
Meanwhile, Limpopo police
commissioner Lieutenant General Thembi Hadebe, in welcoming the lengthy
sentence imposed on Madiba, has saluted the investigating officer and his team.
"We welcome the life
sentence and we are glad that justice was finally served,” said Hadebe
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