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Woman shares her chilling kidnap, 12-hour rape ordeal

May 29, 2025

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The Star

A WOMAN has shared the chilling details of how she was kidnapped and repeatedly raped over 12 hours after encountering a man while walking home late one night.

- MANDILAKHE TSHWETE

Ongeziwe Poni, 20, said the ordeal started on the evening of March 30 at around 9pm, when she encountered the accused, Siyabonga Zono, near her home in Khayelitsha.

"He first told me to look at him. When I refused, he showed me a knife - then I looked at him," she recounted.

Zono allegedly searched her and demanded her cellphone. When she told him she didn't have it, he forced her to walk with him.

Poni said they ended up at an informal settlement where he pushed her into an outdoor toilet.

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