Shadrack Sibiya allegedly plied 18-year-old with alcohol before rape, court hears

Ask AI 7 min Suspended deputy national police commissioner Lieutenant General Shadrack Sibiya is facing allegations of rape and sexual grooming of a teenager.

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The Randburg Magistrates’ Court heard that suspended deputy national police commissioner for crime detection Lt-Gen Shadrack Sibiya allegedly took two girls, 16 and 18, to a strip club in Sandton, where he bought them food and plied them with alcohol before allegedly raping the 18-year-old woman after she passed out.

Sibiya appeared on Tuesday, facing five charges, including rape, trafficking in persons and sexual grooming of a child.

Sibiya was arrested on Monday night by members of the Commission’s Recommendations Task Team (CRTT).

He is accused of sexually grooming a 16-year-old girl between July and August 2026 and raping an 18-year-old woman at a hotel in Sandton in May.