adminDanisa Masuku
It was sweet for my sweet, sugar for my honey when a woman from Lupane forced her sister to engage in sex with a man in return for sugar.
The woman forced her 14-year-old sister to engage in sex with a 32-year-old man from the same village.
It is the Statea��s case that the 30-year-old and her teenage sister met the man at Lupane business centre on 4 April.
The woman sweet talked the girl to have sex with the man in the evening in return for sugar and money for mealie-meal. But she refused.
Seeing that her efforts were hitting a brick wall the woman threatened to chuck her out of the house.
The 14-year-old girl finally gave in to the pressure and went to sleep with theA� man at his homestead for the whole night.
As a token of appreciation the man gave the sexual victim 2kg of sugar and four dollars to buy 5kg of mealie-meal.
She returned home in the morning at around 8am. Seeing her coming home with the sugar in the morning, her aunt asked where she was coming from.
She finally revealed that she was from a man she sleptA� withA� for the entire night and was given 2kg sugar.
Her aunt reported the matter to the police leading to the arrest of the accused and the 14-year-old was taken to St Lukes Hospital for medical examination.
The man appeared before Lupane resident magistrate Ndumo Masuku facing a rape charge and was remanded in custody to 26 April for continuation of trial.
Online Reporter