When a woman arrives at the home of a rural plot owner begging for assistance to take her own life, a tale of filicide unfolds unlike anything seen in South African courts before. Did a combination of medication result in the death of two young children? Or was the motive much less complicated than that?
Rehithile Katlego Matjane, 34, was found guilty of killing her two boys, shot at point-blank range in a field in Hammanskraal on April 17, 2015.
Matjane’s defence was that the sane automatism, which manifested in short-lasting psychotic depressive episodes, led to the shooting due to a cocktail of medications, which varied from mostly Schedule 2 substances and a few Schedule 3 substances which required prescriptions.
She admitted to killing 2-year-old Alvero and his 6-year-old brother Keyondre at the deserted spot near Hammanskraal. She had driven there with them after picking them up from school.
SHOWNOTES:
Host: Nicole Engelbrecht
Producer: Nicole Engelbrecht
Music: Snippet (with permission) from Prime Circle’s Evidence
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