JOHANNESBURG - South Africa continues to suffer from an epidemic of gender-based violence.
This month, serial rapist Nkosinathi Phakathi was sentenced to 791 years and 6 months of direct imprisonment by the Pretoria High Court.
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Phakathi will also serve 42 life terms for his string of violent sexual crimes in and around Ekurhuleni.
For more on this victory for law enforcement, one of the task team members who began investigating Nkosinathi Phakathi in 2020, Warrant Officer Tlala Mokoena, spoke to eNCA