The man accused of raping a 45-year-old businesswoman and tormenting her three children on a farm near Hankey on Monday vehemently denied any involvement in the brutal attack on the family and claimed that all the state witnesses had lied on the stand.Testifying in his defence after the state closed its case, Sebenzile Simane, 32, told the Port Elizabeth High Court he did not understand how DNA evidence found at the scene and at another home – in Patensie, where he is suspected of assaulting another woman – could have got there.“I don’t understand how DNA found at the [forensic] lab can be linked to me,” he said.During cross-examination by state advocate Megan September, Simane maintained that he was not the man who attacked the woman and her children on their farm on March 23 2018.He also claimed that the woman – who identified him positively from CCTV footage taken outside the Humansdorp bank where he used her cards to draw money – was lying.“I couldn’t endure [hearing] that, it is not good for my ears,” Simane said, to the amusement of the woman’s supporters in the public gallery.Simane testified that on the day he was arrested, March 28 2018 in Palmietfontein, he had been found with only his cellphone and bank card on him.He claimed the arresting officers had placed the two bank cards belonging to the attack victim into his pockets and made him put on clothing belonging to the woman’s son.Simane pleaded not guilty to a string of charges including kidnapping, attempted murder, rape and forcing a child to witness a sexual assault.During the Hankey attack the woman was raped twice after being shot.Her 12-year-old daughter was allegedly forced to watch Simane raping her mother after the woman convinced him not to rape the child.Simane faces an additional charge of robbery with aggravating circumstances after he allegedly attacked and robbed Doris Mketshani, 46, on February 6 2018 at her home on Craig Daws Farm near Patensie.Simane, who admitted on Monday to knowing Mketshani’s husband, allegedly entered her house wielding a knife and demanded she hand over a firearm.Mketshani wrestled the knife away, injuring her hand and leg.Her attacker then ran away. DNA evidence from the knife and a balaclava identified Simane as the attacker.The case continues.