Johannesburg – Gauteng Police have welcomed the life sentence handed to serial rapist, Thokozani Jiyane.
Jiyane – the man dubbed “the Facebook rapist” – has been slapped with eight life terms and 223 years imprisonment for raping at least 10 women in the province between December 2019 and February 2020.
He found his victims on Facebook by pretending to be in the film industry. Jiyane would then offer them jobs.
He would arrange meetings and attack his victims.
He was arrested in March last year in Boksburg.
“Despite struggles with forensics on the cases, the investigating officer relied mainly on the cyber unit to retrieve most information from the Facebook postings that took place between Jiyane and his victims. The modus operandi in all of the cases were the same and Jiyane was positively identified by his victims during an identity parade,” said the police’s Noxolo Kweza.
