Rat-poison mom slept next to kids she murdered after lovers' tiff

Four life sentences for mother who killed kids to spite her partner

22 September 2019 - 00:00 By JEFF WICKS

For five days, Witbank murder mom Zinhle Maditla slept in the same room as her four dead children — whom she’d poisoned after a lovers’ quarrel — before their decomposed bodies were discovered...

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