Gang appears for rape and armed robbery

FRANCISTOWN: A gang of four youths, Nonkululeko Meshack, 22, Gaone Morake, 20, Vincent Montsho, 19 and Tsholanang Podisi, 19, appeared in court early this week for ambushing, robbing and raping Zimbabwean visitors on May 4 last year.

The first 20 year-old complainant told the court in Francistown that on May 4 she left Bulawayo in the company of  six other family members to buy groceries in Botswana.
She told the court that they met their fate when they decided to go to the bus rank to scout for accommodation.

'We approached Meshack who told us that he was a bus conductor and he would give us accommodation for five Pula per person at his house in Monarch," she told the court.
She said they got one room to sleep in. Later Meshack and his co-accused came back to rob them. They threatened to kill them, eventually raping all three.

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