Man given two life sentences for rape

A 48-year-old man was handed two life sentences by the Mankweng Magistrate’s Court after being found to have repeatedly raped his 18-year-old stepdaughter, who then fell pregnant, Limpopo police said yesterday.

Spokesperson Colonel Moatshe Ngoepe said the stepdaughter lost the baby after her stepfather gave her a “drinking substance”.

“The police were informed about this inhumane behaviour and the investigations ensued until the perpetrator was apprehended and subsequently jailed [by the] the Mankweng Sexual Offences Court.”

Limpopo police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nneke Jim Ledwaba urged communities to keep reporting sexual crimes as police have a unit tasked with handling such cases.