Convicted paedophile Gordon Joubert was given a collective jail sentence of 192 years in the Johannesburg High Court on Thursday, the Star newspaper reported.
Joubert (49) was earlier found guilty of eight counts of raping minor children.
Acting Judge Naren Pandya sentenced him to 24 years in jail on each rape charge. The sentences will run concurrently.
Joubert was also sentenced to 20 years in jail on 10 counts of indecent assault, 15 years on 15 counts of crimen injuria, and five each on contravention of the Films and Publications Action and the contravention of the Reserve Bank Act.
The court ordered that he must remain in jail for a total of 39 years.
After his conviction earlier, Joubert suggested to the court the appropriate sentence for him was to be castrated, but Pandya ruled otherwise.
”It would be a cruel and inhuman punishment, which is forbidden by the Constitution,” the judge said.
On Thursday, Pandya said Joubert did not physically go out and hunt for his victims.
They were supplied to him by some of the ”grown-up black people” who featured in video tapes showing Joubert raping or indecently assaulting children, mainly of African background.
”In some of the instances, there were a number of grown-up black men appearing in the videos. It is not clear what their roles were. It does not, however, lower the gravity of the offences,” the judge said. — Sapa