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<h1 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color has-small-font-size" style="color:#291d1f"><strong>Serial rapist, Johannes Jojo Shabangu, collapsed and fell in the holding cell, Thursday at the Ga-Rankuwa Regional Court in South Africa after pleading guilty to 25 felony counts</strong></h1>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color has-small-font-size" style="color:#291d1f"><strong>Shabangu <strong> pled to guilty to 14 counts of rape and 11 counts of aggravated robbery,</strong> committed in Winterveldt, in the Odi district, between July 2012 and December 2019 </strong></h1>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color has-small-font-size" style="color:#291d1f"><strong>The suspect and unnamed co-conspirators, raped and robbed multiple women of their property </strong></h1>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color has-small-font-size" style="color:#291d1f"><strong>After Judge Andre Peterson received his plea statement, subsequently finding him guilty on all counts, Shabangu fell ill and collapsed in a holding cell, while the court was on recess </strong></h1>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color has-small-font-size" style="color:#291d1f"><strong>The court was set to hear Victim Impact Statements before sentencing which was then rescheduled for Thursday, August 3 to allow the defendant receive medical attention</strong></h1>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color has-small-font-size" style="color:#291d1f"><strong>However, the court was told Shabangu was declared dead by the paramedics and a declaration certificate was presented to the Judge who then declared proceedings finalized </strong></h1>



<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://alexis.lindaikejisblog.com/photos/shares/cover4_1691165969.jpg" alt="South African serial r@pist collapses and dies in courtroom holding cell shortly after being found guilty of multiple r@pe charges"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Serial rapist, Johannes Jojo Shabangu, [photo], collapsed and fell in the holding cell, at the Ga-Rankuwa Regional Court in South Africa after pleading guilty to 14 charges of rape and 11 of robbery with aggravating circumstances.</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A violent serial rapist, Johannes Jojo Shabangu, collapsed and fell in the holding cell, at the Ga-Rankuwa Regional Court in South Africa after pleading guilty to 14 charges of rape and 11 of robbery with aggravating circumstances.<br>Shabangu, 35, was standing trial at the High Court of South Africa; North West Division, sitting at the Ga-Rankuwa Regional Court on Thursday, August 3, 2023. <br>The suspect fell ill and collapsed in a holding cell, while the court was on recess. <br>This was subsequent to Judge Andre Peterson receiving his guilty plea statement and subsequently finding him guilty on all counts, in accordance with the plea arrangement.<br>The court was set to hear the Victim Impact Statements before sentencing, but it was rescheduled for Thursday, August 3, granting the defendant time to receive medical attention. <br>However, after the court was told that Shabangu was declared dead by the paramedics and a declaration certificate was presented to Judge Peterson, he declared proceedings as finalized and he ordered for the death certificate to be filed with the registrar of the High Court of South; North West Division. <br>He further ordered for an inquest docket to be registered, to determine the cause of death.<br>Shabangu’s court was accused of crimes that took place in Winterveldt, in the Odi district, between July 2012 and December 2019, wherein he together with unknown accomplices, raped and robbed multiple women of their properties. <br>The evidence contained in the indictment indicates that in some instances, Shabangu and his accomplices, would confront couples coming from places of leisure in the evenings, threaten them with a firearm, beat up the boyfriends, rob them of their belongings and subsequently take turns to rape the female victims.<br>In other instances, the thugs would break into homes and apply the same modus operandi. In other instances, they would accost a group of women and rob them before picking on one of them to rape. The youngest of their victim was 14 years of age and her ordeal took place in June 2015. <br>The charges amounted to 14 counts of rape and 11 counts of aggravated robbery.<br>In his guilty plea statement, which was read by his attorney, Shabangu pled guilty to all the charges and asked for forgiveness to his victims.<br>Shabangu&#8217;s accomplices are still at large.</p>

Serial rapist, 35, slumps and dies in South African courtroom holding cell, shortly after pleading guilty to 14 rape charges, and 11 charges of aggravated robbery
