Limpopo father who killed his four sons sentenced to 52-years in prison

Lesiba Kekana, the Limpopo father who killed his four sons, has been sentenced to 52-years in prison. Judge Joseph Raulinga delivered the sentence in the Limpopo High Court in Polokwane on Friday morning. Raulinga said Lesiba Kekana deserves no mercy as he showed none to his children.
“His anger ought to have abated at he drove from Pretoria to Molatlane, and instead of killing them he ought to have had mercy and not murder them, what you did was catastrophic.”
Kekana slit the throats of his four sons after an argument with his wife. During the trail, he gave a chilling account of how he murdered his children, starting with 6 year old Bokang, before moving onto the other children. In a statement read out by his defense, Kekana stated that he wanted to kill himself after he had murdered his sons. He says he tried to stab himself and when that failed, he tried to hang himself. He was stopped by a knock on his door.
At his Thursday court appearance, Kekana said he loved his sons dearly and regretted killing them. He said he killed them because he did not want them to be left destitute. Despite pleading guilty for murder, Judge Raulinga said Kekana would not get a lenient sentence because he ‘slaughtered his sons like sheep’. Kekana has asked for leave to appeal.