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A 31-year-old mother from Utopia farm near Bethlehem in the Free State, has been charged with three counts of murder and one of attempted murder after she confessed to poisoning her three daughters and husband.

Two children aged 10 and 14 and the 49-year-old husband died after eating the brown bean soup which the mother dished up for them before they left home for the day. The third child, an 11-year-old girl is in ICU.

The mother, Maphephi Mokwena was arrested together with her 21-year-old sister Mantoa. Dlamini says the mother admitted that she bought poison called Temik to poison the soup.

 

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The news feminists and women rights activists will never tweet about. The kind of GBV they wish should be kept under the carpet.

Shame that's not cool

Foreigners are showing us flames.This is the beginning.These people reveal to us day by day what kind of people are they.Sadly, ANC doesn't see the trouble that they have put this country in.

This is beyond evil 😩

Feels like I'm reading a movie trailer 😥

Must have been desperate

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