CRIME SCENE: Gauteng: A man who is suspected of raping 14 women, is back behind after being bail released on bail

Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences (FCS) Unit detectives in Ulundi arrested the 36-year-old suspect on Sunday, 20 September 2026, in the Ncotshane area in Nongoma in connection with the rape of the 14 women in the Zululand district and Gauteng Province.

He allegedly raped a woman in January 2010. He was arrested, released on bail and absconded from court. 

According to the South African Police Service (SAPS), he allegedly raped seven women in Pongola, four women in Primrose and Germiston in Gauteng Province, and one woman each in the Paulpietersburg and Magudu policing precincts, while in bail

“His modus operandi was to break either a window or a door of the houses of women who were staying alone and threaten them with a knife. Investigations linked him to all the cases through DNA analysis.

“The suspect will appear in the Mahlabathini Magistrate’s Court on Monday, 21 September 2026, for his failure to appear in court in 2010, and thereafter he will be formally charged for the other 13 rape cases,” said SAPS.