Manana to pay R100 000 fine or face one year imprisonment
Former Higher Education Deputy Minister Mduduzi Manana has been ordered to pay R100 000 or face a year in prison for assaulting three women.
"The court has taken into account by balancing the accused's personal circumstances, the crime, interest of the community and impact of crime on the victims to arrive at an appropriate sentence," Magistrate Ramsamy Reddy says.
Magistrate Reddy sentenced the former MP in the Randburg Magistrate's Court.
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He says Manana will also have to take part in some rehabilitative programmes.
"Mr Manana is to attend and complete the anger management programme offered by Akhisanani Domestic Abuse, Training Perpetrator Programme. Mr Manana is to compete 500 hours of community service to be rendered at the organisation called Valued Citizen Initiative," he says.
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The sentence covers all three counts of assault with intend to do grievous bodily harm that Manana pleaded guilty to last month.
The assault took place in August, during a night out at a Johannesburg restaurant.
Two other men who took part in the assault have also admitted guilt. Reddy says the crime committed is serious.
"The commission of the crime has changed the lives of the victims in a negative manner. The victims sustained physical injuries, felt humiliated, traumatised and embarrassed. This incident has affected them in a manner which they will have to remember and carry for the rest of their lives," he says.
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