/ 1 January 2002

Man arrested after 98-year-old woman raped

Police in Thohoyandou in Limpopo arrested a 38-year-old man in connection with the rape of a 98-year-old woman on Sunday.

Police representative Captain Ailwei Mushavhanamadi said the man entered the old woman’s house at Tshidimbini village on Sunday and demanded money.

When she indicated that she did not have any, the man assaulted and raped her before robbing her of R110. The elderly woman was rescued by her daughter who immediately alerted the police, Mushavhanamadi said.

The man will appear in the Thohoyandou Magistrate’s Court in the near future. – Sapa