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Accused child rapist applied muthi-like substance on two victims‚ court told

The man accused of raping more than 20 children in Tembisa and Olifantsfontein, applied a muthi-like substance on two of his victims to turn them into "idiots", the Johannesburg High Court heard.

Peter Dashboy Khoza is on trial in the high court sitting at the Palm Ridge Magistrate's Court, southeast, of Johannesburg.

He is facing 152 charges including 46 of kidnapping, 29 of rape, and 28 of assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm.

Khoza has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

He allegedly committed the offences between 2007 and 2012, and targeted girls as young as nine years old in adjoining areas in the northeast of Johannesburg.

On Thursday one of his victims who is now 17 years old told the court that Khoza approached her and her five friends while they were playing in Slovo near Eldorado Park on May 6 2012.

She said he asked them to show him where he could buy milk.

The teenager, a grade eight pupil, who now lives in Lesotho said when they reached the shop Khoza told them that there was no change in that shop and that he had been directed to another one.

He told the girl and one of her friends to go with him and others to remain behind, she said.

She said Khoza, who she identified in court, took them to an isolated place, where he made a fire and told them to relax.

"He took out a condom and a knife..."

"He instructed me to take off my pants and panties...He gave me a condom and said I should open it."

She said Khoza then raped her, but she was not sure if he had used the condom.

Khoza rubbed petroleum jelly mixed with a black substance on the forehead of the girl’s friend, on each side of the face and on the wrists, and then instructed her to sleep, the girl said. The substance, she said, looked like muthi.

He did the same to her, she told the court, and then raped her again.

"He also rubbed me with the Vaseline on the same spots. The stuff turned us into idiots and made us comply with his instructions," the girl said.

He released them the following morning, she said.

Khoza's lawyer, Advocate Livingstone Nkuna, asked her how she identified Khoza. She said he had a broken tooth and his right eye was bigger than the left one.

"Your evidence cannot be true. The accused does not have a half tooth."

Nkuna said Khoza would testify that he was not anywhere near Eldorado Park at the time of the incident as he was in Tembisa.

"He was there wearing a black jersey," the girl said.

The trial continues.

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