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Rape acquittal furore stokes calls for NPA to appeal ruling
20 October 2021 - 05:09
An international legal body is among those outraged by acting high court judge Tembeka Ngcukaitobi’s acquittal of a previously convicted rapist, who viewed foreplay as tacit approval for penetrative sex his accuser insists was rape.
Ngcukaitobi’s acquittal of Loyiso Coko is stoking a growing furore in a country where rape is a pandemic that spares no age, class or race...
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