These are the chilling details of how a 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped three weeks ago by Mbuso Mandela, the late former statesman Nelson Mandela’s grandson.
The blow by blow details, contained in a police statement, were seen by Sunday World this week after the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court granted him R7000 bail.
According to the statement, signed by Lieutenant Dithomo Mmako of Hillbrow police’s investigation unit, Mandela allegedly demanded a kiss from the minor after the alleged rape.
He then allegedly called the girl the following day and threatened her, boasting that he had a direct line to the minister of justice.
Mmako also submitted to the court how Mbuso attempted to evade arrest when officers went to pick him up at the global anti-apartheid icon’s house in Houghton, Joburg.
“The victim, a minor female, was in the company of two friends, also minors, at Mamas Restaurant in Greenside, Johannesburg, where they attended an arranged event,” read the statement.
The investigating officer revealed the three minors were standing in front of the pub when they were approached by three males, one of whom introduced himself to the victim as “Mbuso Mandela”.
“After a conversation of about five minutes, the three males asked the three females to go with them to another place, but [they] declined. As the males persisted to convince the girls to go with them, the victim called the host, who came and told the males that the three girls will not go with them,” read the statement.
“After the girls moved inside the premises, the boys later joined them [at their table]. During a conversation, the accused exchanged cellphone numbers with the victim.”
About how the incident allegedly happened, the statement read: “The victim and the accused were passing through a dark passage when the accused grabbed the victim and pulled her toward him, telling her to kiss him.
“[But] as the victim refused, the accused pushed her against the wall, [forcefully kissing] her neck and his hand into her pants.
“The accused allegedly turned the victim around, making her face the wall while he also pulled her pants down.
“The accused [then] allegedly tried to penetrate the [victim’s] vagina from behind, while pressing her against the wall, but found it difficult. By then, the victim alleged she was screaming.
“The accused [then] allegedly pulled the victim further behind the wall, where he threw her down and got on top of her, where he penetrated her vagina with his penis and had sexual intercourse with her without her consent.”
After the alleged incident, the girls were fetched by the victim’s mother, who dropped them off at her father’s house.
The girl told police it was only then that she told her two friends of what happened at the restaurant.