A Northern Cape judge handed a four-year jail sentence to a man who murdered his sister, saying he deviated from the minimum sentence because the man is old, was drunk at the time, and had been provoked by his sisters conduct.
The judge said the circumstances around the murder did not fall within what the legislature intended to classify as femicide.
Herman Hermanus Du Toit, 63, was handed eight years imprisonment at the Kimberley high court by judge president Pule Tlaletsi, but four years of the sentence were suspended for five years on condition that he is not convicted of a similar offence during the period of suspension.