Man charged E5 000 for harassment
THE effect of the SODV Act will soon be felt or is already being felt as SODV offenders continue being slapped with fines over E4000 for contravening the act .
Yesterday the Magistrate slapped Siphamandla Mngometulu 32 years old of Thunzini with a fine of E5000 for harassing a girl he claimed was his girlfriend.
The accused person was charged with the offence of contravening section 77(1) (e) (f ) of the sexual offence and domestic violence act 2018.
Mngometulu was said that on April 6, 2024 at Emvakwelitje area in the Hhohho region, the said accused person did wrongfully and unlawfully intimidate and harass one Nonhlanhla Sibandze and thus contravened the said Act. To this the accused said he had not meant to harass Sakhile Ndzimandze but that they were lovers and on the day they had disagreements.
During mitigation the accused pleaded for leniency and said he does not know what came over him and that he was sorry
“I’m sorry you worship. I’m not a violent person but I do not know what came over me. Emotions got the better of me, it will not happen again,” he said.
He was fined E5000 in default of payment and he is to spend 2 years in prison. On the second count, the accused person was charged for common assault.
On the same day of April 6,2024 at Emvakwelitje area in the Hhohho region, the said accused did wrongfully and intentionally push Sakhile Ndzimandze and thus contravened the said Act. He was fined E500 or 5 months in prison.
In the same court an accused person Ndabehle Zwane was charged with contempt of court in that from January 2024 up until the end of March 2024, at Mbabane Magistrates Court, in the Hhohho Region, the said accused person did unlawfully and intentionally violate the dignity and repute of the Mbabane Magistrate court.
He did this failure to contribute the sum of E1000 towards the maintenance of his daughter Elihle Zwane and further failed to contribute the sum of E200 towards the bus fair of said Elihle Zwane, who is his daughter as he was ordered to do so by the Mbabane Magistrate on June 21, 2023. And did by his failure to comply with the said court order commit the offence as charged.