I CRIED WITH RELIEF
SHE wept when the judge handed down his verdict. The man she’d spent years hunting – the man who’d ruined the lives of so many women – was going to be locked away for the rest of his life.
In one of the longest punishments ever meted out by the South African justice system, serial rapist Sello Abram Mapunya was sentenced to five life terms and 1 088 years in prison.
During a five-year reign of terror, Mapunya attacked at least 56 women in Tshwane’s suburbs of Olievenhoutbosch, Atteridgeville, Silverton, Nellmapius and Mamelodi. His oldest victim was 55, his youngest 14.
During his sentencing,
