Crime
Serial rapist sentenced to two life sentences
He threatened his victims with a firearm and forced them to his room where raped them
Mancoba Witness Ngobeni-Shongwe (27) of Gutjwa Trust outside Kabokweni, was sentenced to two life sentences by the Nelspruit Regional Court on Monday on charges of two rape cases.
He raped his victim between 2014 and 2015.Ngobeni targets women walking alone from taverns around Pienaar at night.
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In one of the instances,his victim was also raped by two of his friends in his room. In 2015 Ngobeni also raped one of the victims four times at different places while he was on bail for another rape charge. He raped the victim near a cemetery, in an unoccupied house and in the bushes before proceeding to his house where he also raped her.
