A 51-YEAR-OLD man has been taken into custody following the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl in McBride village near Komani on Monday.
Police spokeswoman Captain Namhla Mdleleni said the child was playing with friends when she was called to a shack by a relative who then allegedly raped her.
The child reported the incident to her grandmother who opened a case.
The suspect appeared in the Komani Magistrate’s Court this week.