Compassion needed in the administration of justice

A week ago, the Pretoria division of the Gauteng high court handed down a controversial sentence in the case of a mother who poisoned her children — killing one and injuring the other.

In 2022, the now 40-year-old woman from Ekurhuleni in the east of Johannesburg laced her children’s food with poison, intending to kill them...

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