By Botho Molosankwe

.Two siblings at a Durban private school were expelled last week because of the alleged aggressive actions of their father.

 In one of SA’s worst serial rape cases, a 35-year old Thokoza man stands accused of raping 64 children over six years.

He also faces 33 counts of attempted murder.

The suspect faces 97 charges in total. That number could increase as there is a likelihood that charges of kidnapping, attempted murder and the pointing of a firearm could be added.

His alleged rape spree started in January 2006 and came to an end when he was arrested in December last year.

The man, who cannot be named before he pleads to the charges, is only two rapes short of Mongezi Samuel Jingxela, who was named SA’s worst serial rapist in 2007. He committed 66 rapes within 10 years.

But while Jingxela raped women whom he lured under the pretext that he would employ them at a factory, all the Thokoza man’s alleged victims are children.

According to court documents, he preyed on children between the ages of nine and 13. He is alleged to have raped them in Thokoza, Brackendowns, Katlehong and Voslorus in a six-year period.

His reign of terror came to an end when one of his victims followed him to his house and the community helped the police arrest him.

Court documents also show that his young victims pointed him out during an identity parade and that his DNA matched that which was found on the rape survivors.

When arrested, he faced only 33 rape charges. However, the number escalated over the months when he was linked to more charges.

On Wednesday, the man, who appeared in the Alberton Magistrate’s Court, was met with hard stares from people in the gallery who included members of the ANC Women’s League and Women and Men Against Child Abuse.

People also picketed outside the court.

With a pink and black school bag on his back and holding a beanie in his hands, the accused looked around the packed courtroom as he emerged from the holding cells.

He stood awkwardly in the dock, glancing around the courtroom to where his mother and sister were seated.

They shielded their faces from the cameras as they left the court.

At the start of his case, he was represented by Golden Moloi, but the attorney has since withdrawn from the case.

The suspect was supposed to apply for bail on Wednesday but prosecutor Albert Dwera told the court that he had abandoned his application.

The matter was postponed to August when the man will get the formal indictment from the Director of Public Prosecutions about the charges he faces.

 

Other multiple rape trials in the Johannesburg High Court

* Serial rapist Jazzman Rikhotso was handed 17 life terms on May 17 for the rapes of 12 women between April 2008 and August 2010 at Avalon Cemetery in Soweto. He was dubbed the Avalon Serial Rapist.

* A 50-year-old Alexandra man and his 26-year-old son face 21 counts of rape. It is alleged that they drove a taxi through various areas in the north of Joburg, the CBD and Ekurhuleni, where they would offer their victims a lift to their destination before pouncing on them. In most cases, the father would drive the taxi while his son allegedly raped the victim. The victim would later be robbed and then abandoned in open veld.

* A 26-year-old man from Bramfischerville, Soweto, is alleged to have raped nine women in and around Westgate and Roodepoort during 2010. The man, alleged to be a taxi driver, is believed to have picked up women in his white Quantum minibus before assaulting them and forcing them to extort money from them from relatives.

* A 25-year-old Tembisa man is facing eight counts of rape. He allegedly lured the women by promising them jobs. The rapes are alleged to have occurred between April 2007 and May last year. Most of the victims were living in informal settlements in Honeydew, north-west of Joburg. Other victims were attacked in Fourways, Northgate, Cosmo City, Kya Sand and Douglasdale.

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BY Obakeng Maje

Zeerust:- Police are investigating a rape case of an eight year old of Mokgola village.  It is alleged that on the 31 May 2012 at 09:00 the toddler’s aunt, noticed that there was something wrong with her daughter and informed her mother, in Rustenburg.

 The child’s mother returned home on the 1 June 2012 and queried the minor as to what had happened to her but the daughter would not respond.

On the 3 June 2012 the mother took her to her grandmother, in seeking for answers to the change of the child’s condition. 

“The conversation with the grandmother helped the minor to confess to the alleged rape incident. According to the child an unknown man entered their house on Tuesday night, 29 May 2012. The aunt left her alone when the suspect came in and alleged raped her” Sergant Philani Nkwalase said.

During this time the mother was in Rustenburg, left the child with her aunt, who admitted to leaving the house for that night.  

The victim was taken to the clinic and later referred to the Hospital.

The medical report confirmed sexual abuse, however it also stated that evidences shows that it is not a flesh incident, it could have been few days to a week before the examination.

At this stage there is no arrest, as the child was frighten and the it was dark in the house, more over the suspect closed her mouth while he was raping her.

However investigation are continuing.

BY Obakeng Maje

WALMARANSSTAND:- Walmaransstand police have arrested  a 43-year-old man who coaches young boys and girls teams respectively. It is alleged that the coach usually took these two little girls to his house after training for some snacks and give them some money then allegedly raped them. According to the information received this has been happening since January 2012. The most recent incident happed to one of the two 12-year-old girls on the 2 June 2012.

The girl’s aunt, who is her guardian, noticed some changes on the child and probed the matter. Later reported the child’s confession to the police on the 3 June 2012, the   12-year-old girl informed the police that this also happened to her 12-year-old team mate. Then minor’s team mate confirmed this and her most recent rape incident dates back from 25 May 2012. The medical report confirmed that the girls are indeed sexually active, this lead to the arrest of 43-year-old coach. He will appear before the Walmaransstand Magistrates court on 6 June 2012.  

By Sherlissa Peters

CCTV footage showing a 20-year-old woman being raped will be shown during the trial of her alleged rapist.

Njungo Kiveit, 27, has pleaded not guilty in the Pietermaritzburg Regional Court to a charge of rape.

He told magistrate Rose Mogwera on Monday that on the night of June 19 last year, he had met the woman at the Kismet hotel bar.

He said that they had kissed and had spoken of having sex.

The two then left the bar and were walking along Retief Street when he began proposing love to her.

“I put my arm around her, but she was having none of it. I then became aggressive and pinned her to the wall. She then dropped to the ground and I pulled down her pants and tried to rape her,” Kiveit said.

He said the police arrived before he could penetrate the woman.

The victim testified that Kiveit had followed her out of the bar.

“I was quite drunk and tried to walk faster but he grabbed me by my clothes and made me fall to the ground,” the woman said.

She said Kiveit pulled down her pants and raped her.

”When I tried to scream for help he strangled me,” the woman said.

CCTV footage allegedly depicts Kiveit attacking the woman and police having to physically drag him off her after several verbal warnings.

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A Cape Town domestic worker has been arrested for allegedly raping her boss’s teenage son.

The accused was fired from her job and found herself behind bars when her employer allegedly found out that she had sexually assaulted the woman’s 15-year-old son.

The woman was arrested on April 14 and faces a charge of statutory rape.

Two days later she appeared in the Wynberg Magistrates’ Court where prosecutor Shaina Naidoo told the court that the 24-year-old woman had been employed by a Bergvliet family as their domestic worker.

She told Magistrate Marietjie van Eeden that while working for the family, the accused had allegedly forced the teenage boy to have sexual intercourse with her.

Naidoo asked the court to postpone the matter for a week while police investigators checked if she had any pending cases or previous convictions.

When the accused appeared in court again on April 23, she was told that the State was not opposing her release on bail.

But Naidoo asked the court to set strict conditions as part of her bail.

In her sworn affidavit handed to the court, the accused said she knew the boy and his family for a year and knew where they lived.

She said that she lived with her grandmother in Macassar and that she had a one-year-old dependant.

She also said that she intended pleading not guilty.

The accused’s bail was set at R300 and she was warned not to make any contact with the boy or his family.

She was instructed to stay out of the Bergvliet area and to report to the Macassar Police Station every Monday and Wednesday between 6pm and 10pm.

The accused was back in court on Wednesday where she heard that cops had wrapped up their investigation into the alleged incident and were ready to proceed with the trial.

Naidoo asked the court to postpone the case so that arrangements can be made for the matter to be transferred to the Wynberg Regional Court.

The accused was not home when the Daily Voice visited her on Wednesday.

Her grandmother, who was sitting in the doorway, said the accused wasn’t home and sent a young girl to call the woman’s sister.

“She lives in the bungalow at the back with her sister,” says the ouma.

“I don’t know where she is but maybe her sister will know.”

When the sister came to the door, she insisted that she didn’t know where the accused was.

“Ek is haar sister. Vir wat soek julle vir haar (I’m here sister. Why are you looking for her)?” she asked.

“Who sent you to come look for her?”

The young woman folded her arms across her chest and insisted she didn’t know where her sister was.

“She hasn’t come home yet and I don’t know where she is or what time she’ll be home.”

*This article was published in the Daily Voice

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The evil smirk has been wiped off Stephen “Foxy” Isaacs’ face after he was found guilty of the brutal rape of a young girl.

Western Cape High Court Judge Lee Bozalek made it clear to Isaacs that he was convicted by the testimonies of two children – a teen witness and the victim.

Bozalek praised the testimony of a 17-year-old girl who told the court that Isaacs had played with her and some other children in the road outside her home hours before the vicious attack.

“What was particularly important was the evidence of (the 17-year-old) who innocently said that perhaps he couldn’t remember the events of the Friday because he was drunk,” said Bozalek.

“She gave evidence of his entirely inappropriate behaviour of engaging with children and she placed him in (the child’s) immediate vicinity.”

The judge said that he approached the child’s evidence with extreme caution but he found that there was absolutely no reason for her to lie.

“What is crucial is the evidence of the only witness and this was approached with extreme caution,” said Bozalek.

As for the young victim, he stated: “She was a nine-year-old girl who suffered trauma and was the victim of an assault that left her with brain injuries.

“She retained her memory and could distinguish between the truth and falsehood.

“It was a painful experience to hear and watch her give evidence.

But Bozalek added that the “ironic effect” of this was that the child convinced him that Isaacs was guilty of attacking him.

He said that Isaacs claimed the girl was mistaken when she identified him as her attacker but there was nothing to substantiate this claim.

“He said she may have been confused or even put up to it but there was no evidence that she was confused or manipulated,” Bozalek told the court.

“Her evidence was clear and tied in with (the testimony of) her mom, the 17-year-old girl and the two boys who found her.

“She knows the accused well and identified him as her attacker… the only question was if she falsely or mistakenly identified the accused.

“What is of significance is the way she identified the man accused of her attack… she said he was the same colour as she was and gave a description of what he was wearing.

“This information had to be coaxed out of her by her mom after clearly admitting she had lied [about being knocked over by a car].

“This strengthens her version, she said there were too many strangers around her and this is a completely natural reaction by a child.

“These telling moments powerfully underscored her evidence and she had no reason to falsely accuse him.

“I have no hesitation in accepting her evidence.”

Bozalek was brutal in his honesty when he described Isaacs as a cold-hearted liar.

Of Isaacs’ evidence, he said: “He chose his words with care.

“He was quick-witted and was seldom at a loss for an answer.

“It was clear that he had studied the docket.

“However, his evidence as a whole was filled with improbabilities.

“He admitted that he lied [to the family] when he said he would return to the house.

“He lied when he said that he was still in the Darling area.

“He lied to police when he promised to present himself to the Darling Police Station.

“He fled Darling and made his way to Strand where he worked for two weeks until his arrest.

“It is clear he decided to evade the authorities.

“In my view, [Isaacs’] evidence must be rejected as false.

“I find he did indeed kidnap, rape and attempt to murder [the child].

“He must’ve panicked when she emerged from the bush and identified him.”

Charges

Convicted child rapist Stephen “Foxy” Isaacs was yesterday found guilty of three of the four charges he faced in the Western Cape High Court.

*Count one: Kidnapping – Guilty.

The State said Isaacs unlawfully deprived the then nine-year-old girl of her freedom when he lied to her about going to the shop to buy sweets and instead dragged her into thick bushes.

On Tuesday trial Judge Lee Bozalek said: “She testified that she was dragged face down into an unknown place. I am satisfied that the State has proven he’s guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”

* Count two: Rape – Guilty.

During the trial, the child told the court Isaacs had wanted her to perform oral sex on him and when she refused, he hit her and burnt her with cigarettes.

When she fought him off, he pushed her to the ground and proceeded to rape her. Medical evidence presented to the court backed up her claims and Isaacs was found guilty of rape.

* Count three: Assault with the intention to cause grievous bodily harm – Not guilty.

Isaacs was acquitted of this charge after Bozalek found that the assault was a continuation of the rape.

He said that when the child had refused to perform oral sex on Isaacs, he had tried to force her to do so by beating her and burning her.

* Count four: Attempted murder – Guilty.

The victim described to the court how Isaacs had choked her.

Using her left hand, she demonstrated how he had placed his hand around her throat and strangled her.

On Tuesday Bozalek said: “He intended to kill her and eliminate the only witness to his crime.”

*This article was published in the Daily Voice

KHUMA: A 68-year-old man is expected to appear soon before the Stilfontein Magistrates’ Court for allegedly raping her 14-year-old granddaughter for some time. 

The last incident happened during the night of Monday, 14 May 2012. 

“It is alleged that The victim cried hysterically when asked to do the oral reading work by standing in front of the whole class at one of the high schools in the area and read out loud.  The teacher investigated what the matter was and it was then that the rape ordeal came to light” North West SAPS Sopkesperson warrant officer Sam Tselanyane said.

The victim’s aunt was called to the school and was informed about the incident. She denied the accusation against her father. 

Allegedly the matter was reported previously to the family but it was kept as a family secret. 

It is also said the family dismissed the allegations and said they were caused by witchcraft and the devil.  Police were informed and the suspect was arrested on Sunday, 20 May 2012.