A 43-year-old father has been arrested for the alleged rape of his 6- year-old daughter in Solomondale, outside Polokwane in Limpopo.

SAPS spokesperson Brigadier Hlulani Mashaba said the suspects who is a foreign national, was arrested on Thursday, after his daughter told her mother what had her father did to her. "It is reported that the mother and the father had an arrangement that the father should reside with their daughter at his residence in Solomondale, in the beginning of December last year. It was during a recent visit to her mother that the minor complained about pain on her private part while she was bathing,"said Mashaba.

Mashaba said the mother suspected that her daughter might have been raped and took her to the clinic for a medical examination. "The doctor confirmed that indeed the child was raped and she (the six-year-old girl) indicated that her father had raped her.

The incident was immediately reported to the police, on Wednesday, October 18, and the suspect (father) was apprehended the next day while at his residence prior to his court appearance on Friday, October 20," he said. He said the case against the 43-year-old man was postponed to Friday, October 27. Meanwhile, Limpopo provincial commissioner of the South African Police Service, Lieutenant General Thembi Hadebe has condemned the shocking incident. Hadebe also saluted the police officers who arrested the accused father. "He was expected to provide for and protect his daughter, instead he destroyed her future. This is disturbing indeed," said Hadebe.