South African Anene Booysen gang-rapist jailed for life
Johannes Kana, 21, admitted raping Anene Booysen but not killing her
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South African man found guilty of the rape and brutal murder of a
17-year-old girl has been sentenced to two life terms in prison by a
court near Cape Town.
State prosecutors had requested this sentence - without parole - for 21-year-old Johannes Kana.Anene Booysen died in February, hours after she was mutilated in a gang-rape and attack that shocked the country.
South Africa has one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world.
'Shocking and inhumane' The BBC's Nomsa Maseko at the court in Swellendam, 220km (136 miles) from Cape Town, says Kana's uncle clapped his hands and laughed as the judge announced the sentence.
"This is a joke," he said.
Ms Booysen was left for dead at a construction site near her house in Bredasdorp and later died in a Cape Town hospital after she had been raped and disembowelled.
At the time President Jacob Zuma described the attack as "shocking, cruel and most inhumane".
He called for courts to impose the "harshest sentences" for sexual crimes.
Anene Booysen's rape and murder outraged South Africans
Just before she died it was reported that she had said that five or six men were involved in the attack.
Afterwards, three suspects were initially arrested but only Kana stood trial.
He confessed to raping Ms Booysen but denied killing her.
Last year, South African police figures show that 64,000 incidents of rape were reported last year.
