A 71-year-old Mpumalanga pensioner has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after she and two other people beat to death a 50-year-old woman who had accused them of stealing her cattle.
Elina Magagule was sentenced at the Nelspruit Regional court on Wednesday for the December 23 2009 murder.
According to Hawks spokesperson in Mpumalanga, W/O Thandi Tshabalala, on the day of the murder, the deceased confronted Magagule, Pleasure Ngobeni, 35, and Solly Zitha, and accused them of stealing her cattle in Acornhoek.