Woman assist her workmates to rape her sister (14)

A 26-YEAR-OLD Mangwe woman is in trouble for allegedly assisting her two workmates to rape her 14-year-old sister.

Lebani Dube appeared before Plumtree magistrate Gideon Ruvetsa for assisting Previous Dlakama, 23, and Mthokozisi Ndebele, 20, who work with her at a farm in Castle Block, to rape the minor.

Dlakama and Ndebele were arrested last month and are detained at Plumtree Prison awaiting their trial date.

The pair allegedly teamed up to rape the girl who was staying at Dube's house   when the incident occurred in December last year.

Dube, who is denying the charge, is alleged to have invited Dhlakama and Ndebele into her house in the middle of the night.

The three then proceeded to where her younger sister was sleeping and after she woke her up, Dube forced her to have sexual intercourse with her two colleagues.

Prosecuting, Medica Tshuma said the minor's elder sister invited the two men to her house in December last year.

"Dube went into the complainant's room where she was sleeping with her sister's three small children. She walked in with two men. She ordered her younger sister to strip naked and threatened to assault her and throw her out of the house if she refused.

"She then proceeded to her own bedroom and left the two men in the complainant's room. They raped the complainant while the three children were sleeping," said Tshuma.

The prosecutor said the girl fled from her sister's house the following morning and sought refuge at a relative's house.

The matter was subsequently reported to the police.

Dube was remanded in custody to June 20.