Jack Mogale (born 1968/9) dubbed the West-End serial killer by police is a South African serial killer who killed 16 people in 2008 and 2009. On 17 February 2011, Mogale was convicted on 52 of 61 charges related to 16 murders, 19 rapes and nine kidnappings.

Mogale committed his crimes near his residence in Westonaria and Lenasia south of Johannesburg. Two women who survived being attacked by him testified at trial that he claimed to be a Zion Christian Church (ZCC) preacher and a prophet.

Mogale gets 16 life sentences

News24.com

March 18, 2011

Johannesburg - Convicted rapist and murderer Jack Mogale was on Friday sentenced to multiple life terms in the South Gauteng High Court, SABC radio news reported.

Judge Frans Kgomo sentenced Mogale, 42, to 16 life sentences which are to run concurrently. He will serve another 23 years thereafter, without the possibility of parole.

This was because Mogale was a danger to society, Kgomo said.

As Mogale left the court on Friday, he shouted in Sepedi at the families of his victims, saying "You are also coming, I pray. I will be out soon."

Evil

Kgomo said Mogale was evil and should be kept away from women and society.

Mogale was found guilty on Wednesday of nine kidnappings, 19 rapes, 16 murders, attempted murder, three robberies with aggravating circumstances, fraud or theft, assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, sexual assault and escape from lawful custody.

Mogale pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him. He continually testified that police, witnesses and his common-law wife Charlotte Manaka, were conspiring against him. Kgomo dismissed this claim as "far-fetched" and "fallacious".

The crimes were mainly committed at the West-End brick and clay factory near his home in Waterworks, Westonaria, and at various locations in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg.

He attacked and murdered 15 women and a child between March 2008 and March 2009. He was arrested when police were given his car registration number after a teenager went missing.

West-End killer awaits sentencing

News24.com

March 16, 2011

Johannesburg - Jack Mogale, dubbed the West-End serial killer because he lured, raped and killed women at a factory near his home, was found guilty in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Wednesday on 52 of 61 charges.

Judge Frans Kgomo found Mogale guilty of nine kidnappings, 19 rapes, 16 murders, an attempted murder, three robberies with aggravating circumstances, a fraud or theft, an assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, a sexual assault and an escape from lawful custody.

Mogale, 42, had pleaded not guilty to all the charges. He continually testified that police, witnesses and his common-law wife Charlotte Manaka were conspiring against him.

Kgomo dismissed this claim as "far-fetched" and "fallacious".

Dubbed the "West-End serial killer" by police before his identity was discovered, Mogale lured black women to open areas where he raped and murdered them.

The crimes were mainly committed at the West-End brick and clay factory near his home in Waterworks, Westonaria, and at various locations in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg.

He attacked and murdered 15 women and a child between March 2008 to March 2009. He was arrested when police were given his car registration number after a teenager went missing.

The only two women to have survived his attacks testified during his trial that when they met him for the first time he claimed to be a Zion Christian Church preacher and a prophet.

One woman was given a herbal "tea" for uterine problems. She said he put herbs into her vagina and said he needed to have sexual intercourse to exorcise evil spirits from her.

He however said they were having an affair and the sex was consensual.

One woman said he gave her a lift, claimed to be prophesying over her, then took her to a veld where he attacked her. When she regained consciousness 24 hours later, her jaw had been dislocated and maggots were on her wounds.

Not a good witness

Kgomo said the calm and sequential manner in which 41 State witnesses testified throughout the trial was key in building the prosecution.

"The accused [however] was not a very good witness... with his contradictions and new versions [of events]... at times he wanted to shift blame onto his defence counsel," Kgomo said.

"I came to the conclusion that he was not telling the whole truth to the court.

"The accused did also not bring in witnesses to back up statements made during cross-examination by the State."

The court's judgment was assisted, to a large degree, by forensic analysis and expert advice from Professor Gerard Labuschagne, who headed the police's investigative psychology unit.

Many of Mogale's victims were unidentified but linked to him through Labuschagne's investigations. Nearly all the crimes had a similar modus operandi, circumstance, victimology (the study of crime victims) and location.

Most of Mogale's victims were either strangled or killed with blunt force injury, and 14 had a sexual nature, which Labuschagne, in his testimony, said was indicative of a serial killer.

The professor also concluded that all the cases were "undoubtedly by the same offender", Kgomo said.

Guilty Mogale did not tell the whole truth: Judge

By Dudu Dube - Thenewage.co.za

Narch 16, 2011

"I didn't do anything. You know how life is, this is a challenge, I didn't do any of those things. I don't even know those women" 

These were the words of serial killer and rapist Jack Mogale before he was found guilty of 52 crimes, including 16 murders and 12 rapes. 

Judge Frans Kgomo described Mogale as a liar who contradicted himself numerous times and tried to shift blame every time he was cornered. 

“I can safely say that the accused was an untruthful witness whose evidence cannot be relied on. He contradicted himself and came up with new versions. I formed the impression that he was not telling the whole truth,” said Kgomo. 

“The state has proved beyond reasonable doubt the accused’s guilt”.

Mogale may have been nailed by DNA evidence, admissions, two women who survived his killing spree and a confession statement he made after the arrest, but it was his fiancee, main state witness Charlotte Manaka who put the nail in the coffin with a testimony that contradicted all of Mogale’s versions. 

Kgomo started judgment by dismissing Mogale’s version that police had conspired against him by taking a used condom from his house on the day he was arrested and using the specimen found in it as DNA evidence. 

"This defense is very suspicious, especially because the DNA kit was compiled long before the accused was even identified as a suspect and long before he was arrested. The accused's own girlfriend testified that they were not using condoms," said the judge. 

The judge also said Manaka confirmed that Mogale normally wore a Zion Christian Church badge or sangoma beads. That confirmed the evidence of two women who said they were tricked into believing Mogale was a prophet sent by God to cure them. They both identified him by the badge and sangoma beads.  

Kgomo further rejected Mogale’s version that police fabricated the contents of his confession statement, calling it a “fragment of his own imagination”. 

Mogale killed 16 women and raped 12 in the Lenasia and Westonaria area between 2008 and 2009. He was also convicted on numerous counts of theft, kidnapping, sexual assault and escaping from lawful custody. 

One of the alleged victims was 19 years old when Mogale allegedly battered her face with a brick while raping her in an open veld in Westonaria. 

She testified that she had accepted a lift from Mogale and only realised that she was in danger when he took the wrong turn and became aggressive when she asked where they were going. 

The woman said after the rape, he left her unconscious and bleeding in the veld. She only woke up the following day and crawled to a nearby road where she was able to get help. 

Mogale allegedly murdered Hanyeleni Mhangwani who had testified against him in a RDP house fraud case at Westonaria magistrate's court. 

He also raped and killed Dipuo Mogadi, Umanikazonke Sindane, Sonto Tsotetsi, Nothembela Ndabisa, Dipuo Denese, Mamikie Tlallo and nine other women whose bodies have not been identified. 

"Evidence showed that a sim card belonging to the accused was inserted in the victim's missing cellphone. The accused could not explain how that happened when he was questioned," said Kgomo. 

The judge went on to say that evidence indicates that the murders were the work of a serial killer and it all pointed to Mogale. 

"In the light of the totality of evidence, much of which is uncontested such as the DNA evidence, the admissions and testimonies, it can be confirmed that in all the bodies, except the one of a child, the cause of death was strangulation. Bodies were left in sexual positions, naked and raped,” said the judge.  

“On the day he was arrested, the accused displayed hatred for women, he behaved like a psychopath and even showing his manhood to the female police officer. When he met the same policewoman at the station he said “when I come out of here you will be the first person I rape and kill.

Mogale exposed penis during arrest

Timeslive.co.za

February 10, 2011

Serial rape and murder accused Jack Mogale tried to urinate on the police officers arresting him at his shack near Zuurbekom in March 2009, the High Court in Johannesburg heard.

Westonaria policewoman Captain Kgomotso Manthata told the court that after Mogale's hands were handcuffed in front of him, he took out his penis and tried to urinate on police officers.

He also swore at members of the public who had gathered at the scene.

This prompted the officers to secure Mogale's hands behind his back.

She told the court she went to Mogale's home on March 27 2009 with a team of police officers to arrest him after he was linked to the brutal attack and rape of a Venterspost teenager earlier that month.

The girl was offered a lift by Mogale, who told her he was a Zion Christian Church (ZCC) preacher and a prophet.

Instead of taking the girl to her destination, Mogale drove her to a veld outside Westonaria, where he allegedly assaulted her until she was unconscious then raped her.

The girl regained consciousness more than 24-hours later.

Manthata said that during Mogale's arrest the girl's cellphone was recovered in his shack, along with a white g-string and sangoma beads.

She said the way in which the teenager was attacked was similar to the attacks on several other women in the Westonaria area.

This indicated that the same perpetrator was involved.

Manthata said that after receiving information from the victims who survived, she started looking for a ZCC preacher who wore sangoma beads and drove a white Volkswagen Golf with a specific registration number.

Most of Mogale's victims' bodies were found decomposing in the veld.

Mogale is facing more than 60 charges, that includes 19 counts of rape, 16 of murder and 18 of kidnapping.