41-Year-Old Eastern Cape Man Sentenced for Raping and Impregnating His Daughter
- The Gqeberha Regional Court sentenced a father to life imprisonment for raping his daughter and impregnating her when she was young
- The man raped his daughter repeatedly for eight years, beginning when she was 10 years old, and threatened her to prevent her from talking
- South Africans welcomed the sentence and were furious that he man would violate his daughter for such a long time
Tebogo Mokwena, a Briefly News current affairs journalist based in Johannesburg, South Africa, covered a range of criminal activities, including cash-in-transit heists, kidnappings, taxi violence, police investigations, police shootouts, and court cases at Daily Sun for over three years.
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GQEBERHA, EASTERN CAPE — South Africans were relieved when the Gqeberha Regional Court sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping his daughter for eight years and impregnating her.
According to SABC News, the man appeared in court on 21 August 2025 and was handed a stiff sentence for abusing his daughter for almost a decade. The court heard that she moved in with him following a family dispute. That is when her horrific experience began.
The young girl's father assaulted her throughout her teenage years. He threatened her to keep quiet and she fell pregnant by him. He also coerced her into lying about the pregnancy. She gave birth in 2019. However, the victim came forward and opened a case against him.
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Men who were sentenced for rape
The Edenburg Regional Court in Edenburg, Free State, sentenced a pastor to two life terms on 23 May 2025 for raping his stepdaughter multiple times for three years. The child, who was a minor when the abuse began, stayed with him while his mother worked night shifts, and was raped from 2019 to 2022.
A court in Pretoria sentenced a 32-year-old man for raping a girl with Down syndrome in 2022. The incident happened at the flats where the victim lived with her mother. He lured her into his apartment and raped her. He argued that they had consensual sex, and he thought she was 17 years old.
Phethe Simiao, who was arrested after the police found the body of a six-year-old in Soweto on 22 October 2024, pleaded guilty to the girl's rape and murder. He appeared before the High Court in Johannesburg and pleaded guilty.
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What did South Africans say?
South Africans were furious that the man victimised his daughter.
Thabani Mpofu asked:
"How do you see your daughter as someone you can sleep with?"
Lezelda Truter-Philander said:
"A sick world that we find ourselves in."
Annette Hamann said:
"She may give the child up for adoption."
Envelop Lungu The-Realest said:
"May the courts sentence all the men who do these filthy things to their children."
Mamelodi serial rapist sentenced to 400 years
In a related article, Briefly News reported that a serial rapist from Mamelodi in Tshwane received a stiff sentence for his crimes. He was sentenced to 400 years' imprisonment.
Doctor Nkurube Maruma was sentenced on 21 March 2205. He started raping his victims in 2019 until 2022. He broke into the victims' homes and raped them. He began his crime spree in Limpopo and continued in Pretoria until he was arrested.
Amantle Samane’s mother badly traumatised after murder, calls for 3 life sentences for Phethe Simiao
In a related article, Briefly News reported that Ntombizodwa Samane is still traumatised following the brutal rape and murder of her daughter, Amantle. The little girl, who was six at the time, was kidnapped, raped and murdered in October 2024 in Soweto. After first going on the run, Mozambican national Phethe Simiao was eventually arrested for the crime.
Speaking during sentencing proceedings, Samane spoke about the pain and trauma she was still going through following her daughter’s death.
During sentencing proceedings in the Johannesburg High Court, Samane detailed the hurt she was going through.
“The fact that I lost my child hurts me so much. I have stress, and my emotions are not okay. I can’t sleep at night,” she explained. “When going back to bed, I relive the pain and have flashbacks of the state I found her in,” she continued.
She added that she also relived the pain whenever she heard a child cry outside, which made her agitated.
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