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A 38-year-old South African man, Thabo Mlangene, appeared before Magistrate Mats’oloane Qhomane on Monday, accused of raping a 16-year-old girl in Ha-Abia, Maseru.<\/p>\n
Mlangene, who is originally from Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal, and currently resides in Ha-Abia, is alleged to have sexually assaulted the minor on 31 May 2025.<\/p>\n
According to the charge sheet, Mlangene “wrongfully and unlawfully committed a sexual act” by having intercourse with the 16-year-old.<\/p>\n
After the charges were presented and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> A 38-year-old South African man, Thabo Mlangene, appeared before Magistrate Mats’oloane Qhomane on Monday, accused of raping a 16-year-old girl in Ha-Abia, Maseru. Mlangene, who is originally from Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal, and currently resides in Ha-Abia, is alleged to have sexually assaulted the minor on 31 May 2025. According to the charge sheet, Mlangene “wrongfully […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,7081,4717,1407,6867,257,305,254],"class_list":["post-200029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-charged","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-man","tag-news","tag-rape","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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