SWELLENDAM, South Africa (Reuters) - A South African court sentenced a man to two life terms on Friday for the rape, mutilation and murder of a teenager in a case that shocked a nation with one of the world's highest levels of violent crime.
Johannes Kana confessed to raping 17-year-old Anene Booysen before she was dumped at a building site in Bredasdorp, 130 km (80 miles) east of Cape Town, in February. She had been beaten and her stomach was slit open down to her genitals.
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