Bail was denied on Monday (05/09) for medical practitioner Ilunga Kalasa (38), who is accused of raping a 17-year-old patient during a medical consultation.
During the bail application the prosecution requested that another matter in which Kalasa is facing a charge of sexual assault be joined with the rape case.
The application was granted, and Kalasa will now be charged in both matters jointly.
In the second case it is alleged that on 20 April the accused sexually assaulted a 25-year-old patient during a medical examination.
The Kimberley Magistrate’s Court also heard through the affidavit by the defence that the accused was practising as a medical assistant and not as a doctor.
Kalasa was apparently not registered with any medical council to operate as a medical practitioner, and did not have legal papers to work in South Africa.
According to Mojalefa Senokoatsane, regional spokesperson for the National Prosecution Authority (NPA), Kalasa entered the country on a visitor’s permit and is an illegal immigrant.
When presenting the bail judgement, the magistrate informed the applicant that there were no circumstantial reasons that warranted him to be granted bail.
The case has been provisionally postponed to 26 September for possible additional charges against the accused and a decision from the Director of Public Prosecution.
Investigations led by the police continue.
