On Tuesday 13 May 2025, a 25 year-old male accused was handed a life term imprisonment for rape and an additional 15 years sentence for house breaking with the intention to rob including robbery with aggravating circumstances.
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The Groblersdal Regional court also ordered the sentences to run concurrently and declared the accused unfit to possess a firearm.
The Court noted that on 04 December 2023 at about 00:30, a 64 year-old victim was at home sleeping with her boyfriend when she heard a window breaking and Abram Tobani Makubela suddenly entered her bedroom at Donkey-Stop village under Zaaiplaas policing area.
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The accused demanded money and told the victim that he saw her buying liquor at a local tavern. She told him that the money is under a table cloth and he searched for it and found a axe under the bed.
Abram instructed the boyfriend of a 64 year-old victim to cover his face with a pillow and raped her. Following the rape ordeal, the accused took an amount of R200-00 and they went to another house inside the yard and also took a handbag with R1500-00 in cash and immediately fled the scene on foot.
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Afterwards, a rape case was opened at the local police and immediately transferred to Groblersdal Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offenses (FCS) Unit.
Constable Tebatso Henry Mphahlele was assigned to take over the matter for further investigations and managed to arrest Abram on 20 April 2024 at Groblersdal policing precinct.
Through sterling investigative and industrious work, Constable Mphahlele managed to positively link Abram through a DNA analysis while out on bail and made numerous court appearances until he was found guilty in Contravention of Provisions of Section 3 of Act 32 of 2007, rape and housebreaking with the intent to rob plus robbery with aggravating circumstances.
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The Provincial Commissioner of Limpopo Lieutenant General Thembi Hadebe applauded Constable Tebatso Henry Mphahlele for ensuring that the accused is permanently removed from the society for committing heinous acts of this nature.
