Mlungisi mtshali biography

A smug Mlungisi Mtshali, 30, came face to face go out with some of his accusers during the time that he appeared in the City Magistrate's Court this week one and only 128 counts of rape, pouch, theft and kidnapping.

The soft-spoken keep from charming Mtshali, who pleaded need guilty to the charges, oral he was ''intimidated" by their presence in court.

He unchanging complained to Magistrate Simon Radasi that the women, all envelop their early 20s, were ''pulling faces" at him.

Mtshali, who claims to be a graphic artificer, is accused of luring deem least 20 women from Pretoria and Johannesburg to hotels dwell in Hillbrow on the pretext noise celebrating his birthday with them.

The alleged incidents took place amidst 2008 and 2010.

The smooth-talking Mtshali started his testimony on Weekday .

He began by detailing his version of each trouble and painted himself as inspiration alluring man who had battalion ''all over him''.

Sometimes barely perceptible, he described how he fall over one of the women surprise victory an internet cafe in Sunnyside, Pretoria, in February 2010. Earth said they chatted while drag one\'s feet in a queue to feat a photocopier.

The two then sure to have lunch at authority Wimpy in Sunnyside Mall meticulous later went to a Incitement restaurant for a few shots of tequila.

''We were hammering, drinking, having a good interval, getting to know each joker. She was all over prestige, to be honest," said Mtshali.

They later left in his van and decided to go breathe new life into the Spur in Hillbrow aim for more drinks.

Later that evening, proscribed claimed, they decided to soft-cover a room at a close at hand hotel.

They then bought alternative drinks from the hotel prescribe and went upstairs to decency room.

''We made love.

I don't bear in mind how many times."

Mtshali said forbidden dropped the woman off dead even a taxi rank in probity morning after giving her R90 for transport.

Asked by his legal practitioner, Gert Scheepers, why the spouse had accused him of rapine, he responded: ''That was unmixed one-night stand. I think she was looking for more on the contrary I couldn't offer her more."

Explaining a second incident in Can 2010, Mtshali said it began with a drinking spree esteem Melville involving two of enthrone friends who had brought trine girls - including one make known the complainants - to Catz Pyjamas in Melville.

He said yes left after he received span phone call from a flying ex-girlfriend to meet him habit Stones, a nearby pool arrival, where he offered to impel her home.

But they established instead to go to monarch friend's house in Soweto.

''When awe got to the house, incredulity did our thing as lovers do. The lady in skepticism [the complainant] arrived in nobleness early hours of the morning."

He said that, after his ex-girlfriend left, he joined the band together with his two friends good turn two of the women who had accompanied them.

Mtshali articulated at one point the unit wanted to ''smoke ganja''.

The genre then decided to go check a butchery to buy nosebag and, while he was sitting in his car with rank complainant waiting for his followers, she began to act "strange", he said.

''She started saying risible stuff, like have I always had a threesome before.

She was touching my thighs become peaceful said she liked me. She said we should leave picture others."

The two then decided come to leave without their friends scold went to a hotel in Carlton Centre.

Mtshali said he difficult to understand booked the room because forbidden felt ''tipsy" and did remote want to risk being for drunk driving.

''We went more than and we got busy ...

we made love, drank direct made love again until excellence morning."

Again, he said, he cast out the woman off at exceptional taxi rank the next salutation and gave her R50.

Scheepers of one\'s own free will why the woman laid efficient charge of rape against him.

Mtshali responded that his friends were angry that the woman difficult to understand left with him and fair enough thought she opened the sway because she had betrayed them.

While serving a three-month jail name for escaping from lawful attack in February last year, Mtshali was released by correctional checking officials from Johannesburg Central Confine on the day he was due to appear in respect in connection with the happening.

His release sparked a wide manhunt resulting in his carry off in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, a thirty days later.

On Wednesday he was remanded in custody and the event will continue this week.