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24-YEAR-OLD JAILED 20 YEARS FOR RAPE

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MBABANE – A 24-year-old man will almost double his age in jail after he was found guilty of raping two women and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.


Sibusiso Innocent Matsebula was found guilty of the offence after the court felt that the Crown had proved commission beyond reasonable doubt.


Testifying against Matsebula, *Sindisiwe, who was employed by one of the famous restaurants in Ezulwini when the incident happened,  informed the court felt that Matsebula attacked her while on her way home from work at Somnjalose where she lives with her mother and her siblings.


The survivor, who had just alighted from a company vehicle as her homestead was not accessible by cars, told the court that while on her way home she noticed Matsebula behind her. She said the perpetrator greeted her and asked where she was going. After having told him that she was going home, she said Matsebula asked her surname and the homestead she was going to. “He then pulled out a knife and grabbed me and forced me to follow him. He pulled me towards a bush,” she said.


Upon arrival at the forest, the survivor said Matsebula asked her if she had a cellphone, which he demanded that she give it to him. However, she said she explained to him that she did not have one with her because they were banned from carrying them at her workplace.


“He asked what I was going to give him and I told him there was nothing. He then raped me and told me to continue with my way,” Sindisiwe said.

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