During the sentencing of the man, who was convicted late last year of premeditated murder, judge Daniel Thulare ordered Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis to establish, without undue delay, a trust for the benefit of the child — not named here to protect his identity — to assist in upholding his rights of freehold ownership of the home in Fisantekraal, Durbanville.
He also ordered Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane to, within 30 days, locate the remains of the mother buried in the province and ensure her family, and child, visit her grave as part of their emotional and psychosocial therapy, as advised by a social worker. National social development department director-general Linton Mchunu was ordered by the court to “provide all the necessary resources, human and otherwise, to support social worker [redacted] and all other necessary professionals in assisting the minor child in his emotional, psychosocial and other needs within their mandate as may be necessarily required”.
In imposing the life sentence, the court ordered the man also be declared unfit to possess a firearm.During judgment handed down in October last year, Thulare excoriated the way the child's mother was betrayed by a system meant to protect victims of abuse. She had obtained two protection orders, in 2019 and 2020, but was nevertheless strangled, burnt and buried in a shallow grave.