/ 8 March 1999

HERBALIST’S SEX HEARING STARTS

The Mpumalanga town of Belfast is bracing itself for the start of a sensational hearing on Monday when a 63-year-old Hungarian herbalist appears in the Belfast Magistrate’s Court on child rape and child labour charges. Charles Josef Baksai was arrested in February after allegedly bribing groups of girls with food and promises of money in return for afternoons of sex and drugs over the past six years. When police arrested him they found over 50000 pills and sexual stimulants, bottled snakes, a dead dried iguana, a live iguana and starved cats in the house.