adminA hip hop artiste who spent a year in prison after being falsely accused of raping a 15-year-old girl has been awarded R450,000 in damages, The Star reported on Tuesday that the High Court in Pretoria ordered that the minister of justice pay Kevin Stemar R100,000 for unlawful arrest, and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) pay R350,000 in damages.
Stemar was arrested in November 2010 after the teenager claimed he and a friend of his had raped her.
The case was postponed 11 times and he was acquitted in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court.
According to the report, the DPP’s office insisted that Stemar not be released on bail, even though DNA evidence did not link him to the alleged rape.
Meanwhile, Nomathemba Mokeretla, who plays the role of a doctor in Muvhango, was granted R5000 bail yesterday.
Mokeretla, 34, will appear, along with Liteboho Sithole, 33, on September 18 on fraud charges.
“[Mokeretla] handed herself over to the Welkom police and appeared in court on Thursday,” police said.
In September 2011, the two women allegedly used a Welkom doctor’s trucks for their transport business and failed to pay him R300,000 he claimed they owed him, Thakeng said.
Sithole was arrested on November 29, 2011.
In July this year, the doctor saw Mokeretla on television while watching the soapie on SABC and alerted police.- Timeslive.
derick.khumalo