A Vlakfontein mother is grieving the loss of her teenage daughter who recently passed away before she could get justice after being raped over a year ago.
Nellie Senwametsi has been sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty in the Carletonville Magistrate Court of aggravated assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm involving three minors.
The former tennis star was sentenced to six years behind bars in 2015 after he was found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting three youths he was coaching over 20 years ago.
This, as convicted child rapist Jean van Loggerenberg, is applying for bail in the Kempton Park Magistrates Court.
The man, who cannot be named, is currently serving a five-year suspended sentence for the rape of a minor.
This is the eighth time the case has been postponed since January last year.
Rights group Women and Men Against Child Abuse said it hoped justice would prevail when self-confessed Dros rapist Nicholas Ninow returns to the High Court in Pretoria next month where sentencing proceedings are expected to begin.
The 33-year-old appeared in the Alexandra Regional Court on Tuesday where the matter was postponed to next month.
A former George teacher accused of sexually grooming a child could enter into a plea agreement with the State.
A matric pupil laid criminal charges against the man and two other girls have also come forward but have chosen to testify in the internal disciplinary hearings and not go the legal route.
The High Court in Johannesburg on Wednesday sentenced the slain toddler's mother to 20 years behind bars for child negligence. Her boyfriend was handed a life sentence for murder and child abuse.
The 33-year-old man, accused of abusing pupils between 2017 and 2018, appeared in the Alexandra Magistrates Court on sexual assault charges.
On Thursday, Judge Collin Matshitse found that Baby Daniels’ mother had caused the boy’s death by not doing anything about the abuse the toddler suffered.
This call comes after convicted sexual offender Collan Rex, a former assistant water polo coach at Parktown Boys' High School, was sentenced to 23 years in prison for sexual assault.
The former international tennis champion has applied to spend the rest of his six-year sentence at home after only serving two years behind bars after being convicted of rape and sexual assault in 2016 of two women.
The man was sentenced in the Uitenhage Magistrate Court to eight years in prison. He started raping his daughter when she was 11 and continued to do so for 6 years.
Women and Men Against Child Abuse has launched the #MiniMeToo, a campaign that aims to give sexually abused children a voice.
Talk Radio 702's Bongani Bingwa speaks to Miranda Friedman, founder and director of Women & Men Against Child Abuse.
