Cape Town - The investigation involving an alleged serial rapist has been completed, a court in Cape Town heard on Thursday.
The alleged rapist, 33, may not be identified until he pleads to the charges in the Western Cape High Court
In Thursday's proceedings, he appeared in the Bellville District Court, before Magistrate Ronald Rickerts.
State prosecutor Nokuzola Mbewana told the court that the man now faced 30 rape charges (previously it was 23), 30 counts of kidnapping and 12 of aggravated armed robbery.
She said the High Court indictment had not yet been finalised, but would be when the man makes his final preliminary appearance in the district court on December 8.
The indictment would be served on him at his December appearance, via his legal aid lawyer Robyn Diedericks, she told the court.
The man's appearance on Thursday was his fourth, since his arrest in May.
The accused was arrested in the Epping Industrial area after the Family Violence, Child Protection and the Sexual Offences provincial task team had completed extensive investigations.
A police statement at the time said the man's method was to approach victims, and threaten and rob them of jewellery and money, before raping them.
He was arrested after forensic tests linked him to the alleged rapes, at that stage, of 23 women.
The statement said the rapes were perpetrated over a period of five years, in the Delft area as well as in Khayelitsha.
African News Agency