Through the light of my torch, I was able to see that one man was raping her as soon as I entered the house,
And that two other men were standing with their pants about their ankles, waiting to take turns with her.
“They rushed me when they saw me, and I don’t want to discuss what happened in that room again. It was an instinctive reaction to protect my daughter with my knife,” she claimed.
After some thought, the NPA dismissed the murder and two attempted murder charges against the woman, who was nicknamed “Mama Lion” for “protecting her cub.”
In 2018, her daughter Siphokaze gave up her right to remain anonymous in order to commend her courageous mother after the two surviving rapists were given 30-year sentences apiece at the Cacadu Magistrates Court.
74 rapes were reported in Cacuda between 2017 and 2018, with many more victims too scared to come forward. The community finds this “shocking” given that there are just 5,000 people living there.
A 39-year-old guy was found raping a 17-year-old crippled youngster while he was gathering firewood in Muhovhoya Village, Limpopo Province, in 2019. The man was then set on fire and burned to death.
