This is Zinhle Maditla who has been sentenced to four life sentences that will run effectively for the murder of her four children in Sout...
This is Zinhle Maditla who has been sentenced to four life
sentences that will run effectively for the murder of her four children in South Africa.
The hefty jail term emanates from an incident that occurred
on 27 December last year, where Maditla killed her four children, Minenhle (8),
Blessing (7), Shaniqua (4) and Ethen (11 months) by lacing their bread with rat
poison.
The 25- year - old told the court on Tuesday that she had a
fight with the father of her kids, Mfanafuthi Shongwe whom she had been dating
for eight years.
She said she went to confront Shongwe who is Blessing and
Ethen's father about why he hadn’t bought them Christmas clothes, but she found
him with another woman.
She said Shongwe and his grandmother attacked her after she
confronted him.
Maditla then left but said she was so hurt and felt
betrayed that on her way home she bought R10 rat poison at a taxi rank, which
she used to kill her children and also tried to kill herself.
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