Limpopo teacher due in court for repeated rape of pupil
The 50 year-old teacher is alleged to have threatened harm towards the victim if she broke her silence and had also offered her money
A Limpopo teacher has spent the weekend in police custody after being arrested for allegedly raping a female pupil on several occasions. The man is set to make an appearance before the Thohoyandou Magistrate’s Court on Monday 17 May 2021, and will likely apply for bail.
The 50-year-old man is believed to be an educator at a local school in Sibasa, Thohoyandou. The incidents are alleged to have occurred in 2018, when the female pupil was only 17.
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Pretoria - A Limpopo school, where a learner died by suicide after a bullying incident there, has been rocked by a rape scandal after a former learner laid criminal charges against a teacher for allegedly sexually grooming and assaulting her.
The 50-year-old teacher, who cannot be named before he appears in court on Monday, allegedly raped a Mbilwi High School learner a number of times in 2018 by luring her to a lodge, ostensibly to offer her private lessons.
The victim opened a case last month, three years after matriculating from the Sibasa-based school near Thohoyandou.
The Mbilwi Secondary School teacher allegedly raped a 17-year-old on several occasions in 2018.
He was arrested last Friday and faces three counts of rape, according to the police.
The 50-year-old will apply for bail on Monday next week.
A 50-year-old teacher from Mbilwi Secondary School in Thohoyondou, in Limpopo, was in the dock for allegedly raping a 17-year-old pupil on multiple occasions.
The man appeared in the Thohoyandou Magistrate s Court on Monday on three counts of rape. The case was postponed to 24 May for the man to get legal representation and file a formal bail application, police spokesperson Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo said.
Limpopo: Teacher arrested for raping learner ‘on several occasions’
Limpopo police are investigating a case of rape against a teacher, who is alleged to have victimised a female pupil in 2018
The man was arrested on Friday, 14 May 2021, approximately three years since the incidents are alleged to have occurred.
The teacher is set to make an appearance in the Thohoyandou Magistrate’s Court on Monday 17 May 2021, facing three counts of rape. Police have said that for now, investigations into the matter are continuing.
Police: Limpopo teacher offered pupil money to keep quiet about rape
According to police, the teacher not only offered the young woman money, but at some point, threatened to harm her, if she ever spoke out about the rape incidents.
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Police in Thohoyandou in Limpopo arrested a 50-year-old teacher for allegedly raping a pupil on several occasions in 2018.
The victim was a Grade 12 pupil at the school where the teacher was employed when the alleged rape incidents happened.
Police spokesperson Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo said the teacher allegedly offered to help her with extra lessons, only to take her to a local lodge where he raped her on several occasions.
The teacher allegedly threatened her and then offered her money to keep silent. The victim eventually opened a case of rape last month, April, at the Thohoyandou police station. Members of the Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit (FCS) immediately took over the case and after a lengthy investigation, the suspect was then arrested, Mojapelo said.