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Mother who pleads guilty to the murder of her children to be sentenced

She was found guilty for four counts of premeditated murder.

EMALAHLENI-  Zinhle Maditla will appear in the Middelburg High Court  after admitting that she poisoned her children in December last year.

Maditla from Klarinet was arrested after she called family members informing them to go and check at her house on December 30.

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Police were later met by a gruesome scene where bodies of her four children aged between 11 months and eight years were wrapped in blankets.

During her first appearance in January the court ruled that she must be sent for psychiatric evaluation but was found fit to stand trial in March.

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Sentencing proceedings are expected to begin this morning.

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