Kotze claimed wife's alleged rapists were lucky to get chance

Sello Mphaka testified he initially refused to co-operate when he was told he had to have sex with Bonnette, the wife of Modimolle businessman Johan Kotzé. Kotzé, Mphaka, Andries Sithole, and Pieta Mohlake are alleged to have kidnapped, raped, and attempted to murder Bonnette in Kotzé's rented Modimolle house on 3 January 2012. They are also accused of murdering her 19-year-old son Conrad. The four have pleaded not guilty. Kotzé claimed he could not be held accountable for his actions. The other three said they had only pretended to rape Bonnette. Bonnette testified that Sithole, Mohlake, and Mphaka looked on while Kotzé sexually tortured her and cut off her nipples and then took turns to rape her. Mphaka testified that Kotzé was full of jokes when he took the three of them to Modimolle to wash his caravan. Once there, they had to remove and replant palm trees before they were called into the house, supposedly to fetch soap so they could wash the caravan. Once inside, Sithole told them they were there to have sex with Kotzé's wife because he was 'too fat' to have sex with her himself. She had affairs and had asked him to get other men to have sex with her. 'Andries (Sithole) said where will you ever see a white person giving his wife to black people? We're lucky. Now we can experience how it feels.' When he resisted, Kotze got angry. 'Kotzé said he was not going to listen to a kaffir. A kaffir would do as he said. He said if we did not co-operate, no one would leave there alive. He said a kaffir is a strange thing. He rapes on his own but when you give him a woman he refuses.' Mphaka claimed he did not rape Bonnette, saying: 'I went to lie on her. I pulled down my zip, but my penis was still in my underpants.' Full report on the News24 site