The Groblersdal Regional Court in Limpopo has sentenced a 28-year-old man to life imprisonment for the 2024 rape of a 101-year-old woman. Sifiso Johannes Mahlangu from Sehlakwana village in Zaaiplaas was also sentenced to an additional three years behind bars for housebreaking with intent to commit an offence. Mahlangu rapes elderly woman and fleesHe committed the heinous crime on 27 July 2024, when he broke into the elderly woman’s Zaaiplaas home, raped her and fled. ‘Trauma and fear of men’The reports, Malabi-Dzhangi, highlighted the severe psychological and emotional trauma suffered by the elderly victim, who no longer feels safe in her own home and has developed a fear of men. “All cases of sexual violence encroach on the rights to dignity and privacy of victims as enshrined in our Constitution,” Thenga said.