Pretoria – An HIV-positive mother who killed her four-year-old son by giving him Rattex mixed with yoghurt as she was down and out and without anyone to take care of her children has been given a lifeline with her 25-year jail sentence being drastically reduced.

Elizabeth Mazibuko was sentenced in the Nigel Regional Court in 2011, but she turned to the Pretoria High Court to appeal against the 25-year sentence.

Acting Judge Nicolene Janse van Nieuwenhuizen said the circumstances that gave rise to Mazibuko’s conviction were “extremely tragic”.
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