Nelson Mandela’s grandson has been charged with raping a 15-year-old in a toilet in South Africa.
Mbuso Mandela, 24, appeared at a Johannesburg court yesterday and will be held in police custody until he returns for a bail hearing on Friday, a police spokesperson said.
He allegedly grabbed her as she entered a toilet at an unnamed restaurant in Greenside on Friday.
The girl who was allegedly raped by Mbuso Mandela went to the restaurant with friends, South Africa’s Daily Sun quoted her family’s spokesman as saying.
He added: ‘Apparently, she went to the toilet and he grabbed her and raped her inside one of the toilets.’
The website reported that after the alleged attack, Nelson Mandela’s second wife Winnie sent a bodyguard–who posed as a police officer–to the family’s home to intimidate them.
‘Winnie’s bodyguard went to the family pretending to be a cop,’ the family spokesman continued. ...