Fingo Village, Makhanda, rapist Loyiso Coko has had his conviction for the 2018 rape of a 21-year-old woman confirmed by the Supreme Court of Appeal, which found that consensual foreplay did not imply the woman consented to sexual penetration. The SCA found that judge Nyameko Gqamana and acting judge Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, sitting in the Makhanda high court, committed an error in law when they overturned Coko’s conviction by the town’s regional court.
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To note the 10th anniversary of the murders of Reeva Steenkamp and Anene Booysen, the Wits Justice Project has compiled a list of the names of 54 other women who were murdered during the same month.