HEFTY prison sentences have been handed down to two Pongola men for two separate rape incidents.
Last week the Pongola Regional Court found Ndumiso Ntumba (29) guilty of rape and sentenced him to life behind bars.
On Christmas Day, 2017 a number of children were playing near Ntumba’s home in the Belgrade area.
He sent all the children except one girl to the tuck shop, during which time he took the seven-year-old girl into his home and raped her.
According to police records, the girl screamed and Ntumba gave her R1 to keep quiet.
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She went home and reported the rape to her mother and a case was opened at Pongola police station.
In the same court traditional healer Mkholiswa Nxumalo (35) was found guilty of rape and sentenced him to 25 years in prison.
In January 2013 Nxumalo’s 14-year-old victim went to him in KwaShoba area as she was not feeling well.
When he was unable to convince her as to his method of making her well, he forcefully raped her.
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