Siphelele Nketo 

KOKSTAD Regional Court has sentenced Bulelali Gxubane (42) to undergo five years’ imprisonment for housebreaking and 10 years’ imprisonment for raping a woman (35) from the rural village of Ndawana in Umzimkhulu. The court ordered that the sentence imposed on count one shall run concurrently with sentence imposed on count two.

The incident occurred in 2023. The victim was sleeping in her home when the Gxubane forced entry and raped her. Initially, the rape case was opened in Evatt SAPS and later transferred to the Kokstad Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences (FCS) unit for further investigations.