Court hands life sentence to man who raped former Banyana player and left her for dead

Durban — On Wednesday the Ntuzuma Magistrate’s Court handed a life sentence to a 34-year-old man who it convicted of raping, stabbing, and robbing a former Banyana Banyana player.In November 2020 the lesbian woman was stabbed with a broken glass bottle in her neck and in her left eye and was strangled and raped by Sandile Wiseman Nikwe. She played dead to avoid further assault by the accused.He took her pants, shoes, watch, underwear as well as her cellphone, leaving her for dead in a ditch by the roadside in KwaMashu in 2020.She managed to crawl out of the ditch and passers-by stopped…