Police in Giyani, North East of Limpopo are searching for an unidentified suspect following the rape of an 11-year-old girl whose ordeal was filmed on a cellphone camera.
Police spokesperson Colonel Malesela Ledwaba says on the 25th of February, the child was attending a church service with her grandmother but left earlier to go home.
He says when the grandmother returned home the victim was not there and she left to attend to daily errands.
Colonel Ledwaba says the grandmother was unaware of any wrongdoing until three days later when she saw her granddaughter watching a distressing video on a cellphone depicting her rape by an unknown perpetrator.
He says it was then that the victim told her granny that she had been raped while asleep at home on the day she returned from church.
The incident was promptly reported to the police who uncovered that the video was filmed using the grandmother's cellphone.
Colonel Ledwaba says the circumstances surrounding the recording remain unclear, prompting ongoing inquiries into the matter.
The Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Thembi Hadebe has unequivocally condemned this abhorrent crime that has exposed a minor to such unspeakable violence.
