Man pleads guilty as revenge filicides escalate

Filicide is the purposeful killing of one or more children by a parent, step-parent, or other parental figure. Revenge filicide is a poorly understood, rare form of filicide in which a parent murders their child to cause emotional harm to the child's other parent.

Bame was the daughter of Makhura’s girlfriend Chenesani Tebelelo. At the time the two offences were committed, Chenesani and Makhura’s love relationship was on the rocks. According to the summary of facts, Makhura and Chenesani were in a love relationship and cohabited together at Setambule ward in Shashemooke together with the latter’s children and one of them was Bame.