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A 63 year old man has been found guilty of raping his granddaughter. Photograph: Canva

Rape latest: Man sentenced to life in jail for rape, attempted murder

The 29-year-old man became angry when his victim rejected his advances and then raped her, slashed her throat and left her for dead.

rape grandfather

A 63 year old man has been found guilty of raping his granddaughter. Photograph: Canva

A 29-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment after he was found guilty of rape, robbery with aggravating circumstances, attempted murder and kidnapping.

Judge Soma Naidoo sentenced Mpho Majoba to life imprisonment for murder, 15 years for robbery with aggravating circumstances, 10 years for attempted murder and three years for kidnapping. 

National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Phaladi Shuping said Majoba had raped and slashed his victim’s throat after she spurned his advances.

“He accosted the complainant while she was on her way home at around 11am on 30 March 2021. He made love advances and became angry when she did not accept. He dragged her to a nearby bush and raped her. He then slashed her throat and left her for dead,” Shuping said.

However, the rape victim survived and made her way home later in the afternoon, bleeding from her throat and unable to talk.

“She wrote down the details of the incident and provided a description of the perpetrator before she was transferred to hospital. Majoba was traced and arrested at De Hoop farm in Rosendal area. He was found in the possession of the complainant’s cellular phone,” Shuping said. 

Arguing in aggravation of sentence, state prosecutor, Advocate Moipone Moroka, said that the disposition of the complainant would never be the same after the incident and the scars would always remind her of the attack. 

“The prevalence of gender-based violence is a serious concern in our country and no woman will be left unscathed by the ordeal that the complainant was subjected to. The only sentence the court should impose is life imprisonment as the accused failed to advance any substantial and compelling circumstances,” Moroka said.

Naidoo sentenced Majoba to an effective term of life imprisonment for the rape.