[notice]A monthly column by Marcel van der Watt, lecturer in the Department of Police Practice at UNISA, former police detective, and current member of the Gauteng Rapid Response Task Team for Human Trafficking.[/notice] The recent ukuthwala related conviction and sentence of Mvumeleni Jez ile to an effective 22 years in jail for three counts of… Continue reading Exposing the modern day practice of ‘ukuthwala’
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Man sentenced to imprisonment for abducting, marrying, raping girl, 14
Originally published in ioL Newswith additional reporting by Gateway News A14-year-old girl found herself in “modern-day slavery”, in the words of a Wynberg magistrate, when she was sold for R8 000 and forced to marry a man who held her captive and beat her for sex. Last Thursday (February 13), Wynberg Regional Court Magistrate Daleen… Continue reading Man sentenced to imprisonment for abducting, marrying, raping girl, 14