A 47-year-old man from Soshanguve has been convicted by the Pretoria high court of the brutal, premeditated murder of his estranged wife after scalding her with boiling water in a bathtub and assaulting her.
At the time of the incident in October 2022, Sydney Maseti and Yvone Yolanda Maseti, 39, had been separated for over eight months due to man's infidelity after he was caught in a relationship with his brother-in-law's girlfriend.
In court, Maseti denied guilt, claiming the deceased had burnt herself.