State wants Brickz jailed

The state yesterday asked the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court to sentence Kwaito star Sipho Ndlovu, known as Brickz, pictured, to a minimum of 10 years jail for raping his niece, who was 16 at the time.

During the conclusion of pre-sentencing proceedings, state prosecutor Pratisha Salie said there were no substantial circumstances to make the court deviate from handing down the minimum sentence of 10 years. The Sweetie, my Baby hitmaker was found guilty in July of raping his niece at his home in Ruimsig in 2013.

“She tried to look up to him as her father,” Salie said.

She added that rape was serious and the victim was young and had not been coping well after it.

“She locked herself in a cupboard and at some point she was found with many pills in her possession and was suicidal,” the prosecutor said.

“The victim couldn’t come to terms with the ordeal. She indicated she was robbed of what she considered her ‘prize possession’, which could never be replaced.”

The teen had lost her mother and her father and was taken in by her uncle, Brickz, who then violated her. “She questions and blames herself as to why he chose her when she saw him as her father.”

Salie said she disagreed with the defence’s report depicting Brickz as an asset to society, saying a doctor testified he had not used a condom and as a result the girl had contracted a sexually transmitted disease.

Making the case for imprisonment, Salie said Brickz had also not shown remorse.

Earlier, defence attorney Piet du Plessis implored the court to be lenient as his client was a first offender who could be rehabilitated. – ANA