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The Citizen
25-07-2025
- The Citizen
KZN fake pastor jailed for raping children
The Nquthu Regional Court in KZN has sentenced a man who posed as a pastor to 10 life terms and an additional 70 years in prison after he was found guilty of multiple counts of child rape, sexual assault and exposing minors to pornography. The Witness reports that Mandlelisa Mabhale (58) was arrested on September 22, 2022, at a hiding place in the Luvisi area. He was subsequently charged with a series of crimes involving the abuse and exploitation of children. According to KZN SAPS spokesperson Constable Thenjiswa Ngcobo, Mabhale made his initial court appearance in the Nquthu Magistrate's Court. His several bids for bail were opposed. Ngcobo said that in 2022, a child minder of four children overheard people talking about a pastor who had a reputation for violating young children. 'The conversation caught the minder's interest because the children she was looking after frequented the place of the pastor and would spend a considerable amount of time in his company. The children would also assist Mabhale when he was doing his odd jobs of fixing electrical appliances,' she said. When they arrived home, the child minder asked the four children if Mahbale had done anything to them, but the children did not answer her. However, the children later confessed to their mother that the pastor had been raping them. The matter was immediately reported to the police, and an investigation uncovered that Mabhale had raped at least 10 children. 'The victims, who are all minors, informed police detectives that the pastor would lure them to his rented room at Ndidini area where he would make them watch pornographic material and then rape them,' Ngcbobo says. The matter was transferred to the Nquthu Regional Court, where the suspects pleaded not guilty to all charges against him. Ngcbobo says the investigative work by the detectives was enough to convince the court to hand down the ultimate sentence to Mabhale. Breaking news at your fingertips… Follow Caxton Network News on Facebook and join our WhatsApp channel. Nuus wat saakmaak. Volg Caxton Netwerk-nuus op Facebook en sluit aan by ons WhatsApp-kanaal. Read original story on
The Citizen
07-05-2025
- The Citizen
Nquthu man who raped and killed teenage girl jailed for life
A man who raped and murdered a teenage girl he was tasked to look after has been sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment by the Nquthu Regional Court. The 24-year-old volunteered to look after the 15-year-old girl after her cousin and the cousin's boyfriend left their home in the Mxangala area on October 29, 2022, to attend a night vigil. The man had already been scolded by the cousin for 'proposing love' to the teenager, but he was nevertheless left with the girl in a rondavel. When the cousin and her boyfriend returned home in the early hours of the morning, they found the girl dead outside the rondavel. The girl's father and the local induna were alerted, and the man was arrested shortly afterwards. During the trial, Prosecutor Mphakamiseni Joel Justice Mdlalose led the evidence of the grandmother and cousin of the deceased, as well as the findings of the post-mortem. Mdlalose also told the court that the accused had deprived the complainant's family by taking her life, as the family had hopes of her getting a good job and uplifting them. The accused received two life sentences – one for the murder and one for the rape. He was also declared unfit to possess a firearm and the court ordered that his name be added into the National Register for Sex Offenders. 'The NPA hopes that sentences of this nature serve as a deterrent to like-minded individuals,' said NPA regional spokesperson Natasha Ramkisson-Kara. HAVE YOUR SAY: Like our Facebook page, follow us on Twitter and Instagram or email us at Add us on WhatsApp 071 277 1394. At Caxton, we employ humans to generate daily fresh news, not AI intervention. Happy reading!
