Soweto taxi driver handed life sentence for numerous rapes
The High Court in Johannesburg has sentenced serial rapist Katlego Mabote to five life terms for a spate of rapes in Soweto over the past eight years.
Mabote was convicted of raping several women around Rockville and Mofolo between 2007 and 2014.
He worked a taxi owner transporting school children and supermarket employees in Soweto at the time.
NPA spokesperson Phindi Mjonondwane says some of the victims were approached by police officers in an attempt to persuade them to withdraw their statements.
"Six of his victims were lured into boarding his taxi and thereafter threatened with assault, assaulted viciously before been taking to his place where they would be raped.
"Some victims were raped repeatedly in the presence of other witnesses and co-perpetrators who are still at large. He was arrested for another rape incident in 2014 when six more dockets were reactivated."
During the ruling the judge ordered an investigation into the police officers who attempted to pervert to course of justice.
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