A South African mother identified as Zinhle Maditla on Monday September 9, pleaded guilty to a four count charge of killing her four children with rat poison.
Maditla who confessed to
killing her children when arraigned in a Middelburg High Court, said her anger
and frustration stemmed from getting to know that the father of two of her
children was with another woman.
In her plea statement which was
read out by her lawyer, the Mpumalanga resident revealed she also took
the rat poison. She went on to ask the court for mercy.
“I admit I have no defence in
law for my conduct on that day. I request the court for mercy.
"I went back home, I sat in
the taxi emotional and crying I saw a hawker selling rat poison I took R10
and bought poison with the intention to kill myself and my children" she
said.
The case was adjourned till
Tuesday September 10.
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