Former Muvhango actress Amanda du-Pont has told the police that her ex-boyfriend Jub Jub raped her several times, sometimes in the presence of her sisters, when they were dating almost two decades ago.
She also alleged in one of their domestic violent tiffs Jub Jub choked and suffocated her several times until she blacked out.
Du-Pont, who opened a case of rape against Jub Jub recently, made these allegations in the statement she submitted to the police ahead of their trial in the Johannesburg magistrate’s court in November.
In the statement, which was shared by a cop close to the case, du-Pont alleged that Jub Jub first raped her at her Auckland Park apartment in 2007 after she spurned his sexual advances because she did not want to have sex before marriage.
She said after the rape ordeal, Jub Jub visited her and asked to have sex with her but when she refused, he raped her again.
She said after the alleged rape incident, she bolted out of her apartment and blitzed into her male friend’s apartment and told him what happened. She said the friend asked her to pray with him because he did not know how to deal with her plight. Du-Pont said later on when she was walking back to her apartment, Jub Jub, who was swimming in a complex pool, laughed at her and said he told her he was going to get her.
She said in the same year (2007) her younger sister was sleeping on the floor of her apartment, while the other one, who was 11 years-old, was sharing the bed with her.
She said Jub Jub, who was in the apartment, jumped onto her bed and raped her in the presence of her sisters.
Despite these rape incidents, du-Pont said in 2008 she and Jub Jub moved together into a house in Bassonia, south of Joburg, where they stayed for a while, until he raped her again in the presence of his sister. She said later in the year, she fell pregnant with Jub Jub’s child but aborted it.
“She said she could not cope any longer and wanted to take her own life by overdosing on pills,” said the cop.
She said afterwards Jub Jub continued to rape her until she attempted to commit suicide again. She said later in the same year, she was sitting on the bed fidgeting with her cellphone while holding a plate of food. She said Jub Jub walked in, smacked the plate out of her and started punching her after accusing her of cheating.
“He then put his hands on her neck, choked and suffocated her until she could not breathe anymore and blacked out,” said the cop.
After the incident, she kicked him, and when he fell against the cupboard, she ran out of the house and reported him to the police at the Mondeor police station.
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