A 63-year-old man from Kwambonambi was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Empangeni Regional Court last week after he was convicted of the rape of his 15-year-old granddaughter.

The girl and her mother lived with their extended family at the man’s homestead, he was the girl’s maternal grandfather. He had raped her four times during the period of 2018 to 2020. On the last occasion he had just raped the girl and was straightening his clothes when a family member (the girl’s cousin) walked in on them. The cousin immediately reported this to the girl’s mother.