A mother of two threatened to leave a man if he did not stop his involvement in the running of a brothel that used young girls, the Durban Regional Court was told on Thursday. The woman, who cannot be named, said she met Bhabha Dubazini, when she was taking one of her children to a clinic at Durban’s Addington Hospital. The two became involved, but she said she threatened to leave Dubazini if he did not quit working for his co-accused Sandile Patrick Zweni, selling drugs and managing the women who prostituted themselves from Inn Town Lodge. The two men, along with Nonduzo Dlamini, Dr Genchen Rugnath and Rugnath’s wife Ravina, have pleaded not guilty to 156 charges, including assault, rape, sexual exploitation of a child, and racketeering. Zweni is alleged to have operated the prostitution ring, which included girls as young as 12, from the hotel. Dubazini’s ex-girlfriend said that when she had met Dubazini, he told her how he made his living. “He told me he was selling for Sandile from Inn Town Lodge. He said he was selling rock (crack cocaine).” She said she believed that Dubazini had been honest about his living because “we were in...
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