Paul Conradie will spend the rest of his life in jail after he was sentenced to double life imprisonment last week by the Northern Cape High Court for the rape and murder of his mother in February 2020.
The 39-year-old from Kimberley is said to have been enjoying homemade ginger beer with his mother when he suddenly raped and killed her.
Lieutenant-General Koliswa Otola, Northern Cape provincial police commissioner, commended the police, the provincial department of justice, and the National Prosecuting Authority for their sterling investigative work.
“Justice has been served. The country is facing a scourge of gender-based violence and I am confident that the sentence will deter criminals from committing crimes against women and children,” said Otola.
Meanwhile, Phindile Sibiya, a 26-year-old woman from Belfast, was on Wednesday sentenced to 22 years in prison by the high court in Mpumalanga for killing her infant.
Sibiya is believed to have stabbed the child with a pair of scissors and buried her in a shallow grave soon after she gave birth.
Sibiya, a mother of two, pleaded guilty to intentionally killing and burying the infant.
In another family violence incident, a 32-year-old mother of four from Engcobo in the Eastern Cape allegedly confessed to her father-in-law that she bludgeoned her children to death on Wednesday.
The bodies of the children, aged between two and 11 years, were discovered inside a rondavel hut where they were sleeping with their mother.
The accused appeared before the magistrate’s court in Engcobo on Thursday to answer to charges of murder.
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