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NATIONAL NEWS: Mother gets 14 years for killing son

“The boy was kicked so hard that his skull cracked, but not hard enough for him to die. He died from blood loss over a period of 10 hours.” – Judge Mabuse.

A Barberton woman was found guilty of the brutal murder of her three-year-old son, who died in 2011.

Mawande Nokwanda Matsebule (24) appeared in Mbombela’s Eastern Circuit District High Court on Monday where she was sentenced.

The boy was three years and 11 months old when his mother beat him and kicked him to death.

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