Xolani Gcelu, an HIV-positive man who raped several women during a reign of terror from 2016 to 2019 in the Eastern Cape, has been sentenced to nine life imprisonment terms and 158 years.
Xolani Gcelu, an HIV-positive man who raped several women during a reign of terror from 2016 to 2019 in the Eastern Cape, has been sentenced to nine life imprisonment terms and 158 years.
Year in and year out, incidents of gender-based violence and femicide in the Eastern Cape read like the script of a horror movie. The crime statistics released by police minister Bheki Cele quarterly attest to the magnitude of the problem in the province.