Sifiso Makhubo, aged 42 known to be South Africa’s worst
known rapist has been found dead in his prison cell hours before he was
to go to trial.
Sifiso was facing a total of 122 charges for murder, rape, sexually
assaulting 34 children, kidnapping, robbery and attempted murder by
infecting his victims with HIV/AIDS. He was found hanging from his
blanket in his prison cell. Investigations are currently going on concerning the circumstances
around his death. The horrific nature of the crimes committed by Sifisi
Makhubo shocked South Africa, a country accustomed to some of the
world’s highest levels of sexual violence. It has been recorded that in April 2012, more than 64,000 sexual
offences, including rape, have been reported in South Africa. Of these,
more than 25,000 were assaults on children. South Africa in 2010 reported over a hundred cases of rape per 100,00
people, by far the highest among countries that reported statistics to
the United Nations compared to the 27.3 in the United States as the
frequency of rape cases differs from country to country.
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