Magistrate’s paid suspension ‘as lenient as her sentences for child rapists’

A rapist father’s sentence was recently adjusted from five years to life imprisonment after it was sent on review

19 October 2021 - 19:40 By Tania Broughton

It’s been 15 months since an Umlazi magistrate has been sitting at home on a full salary for handing out “mercy” sentences to rapists...

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