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‘Why did he kill my four boys?’

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Lorraine Kekana (30) cannot sleep because of the questions whirling around in her mind.

The mother of four boys, whose father allegedly slit their throats and left them to die as she listened helplessly on the phone, keeps asking: “Why did he do it?” “How am I going to live without my boys?”

Kekana’s 36-year-old husband is in a Polokwane hospital after he tried to take his life.

When he recovers, he will appear in court on four charges of murder.

She is now praying that he recovers so he can tell her and the court why he decided to take their boys’ precious lives.

“We leave it all in God’s hands and for the law to take its course. Nothing else will bring my sons back,” she said on Thursday.

Last Sunday morning the man, who cannot be named as he has yet to appear in court, allegedly put his older son, Tlholofelo (13), on the phone to speak to his mother while he slit the throats of Keneilwe (10), Bokang (6) and Lekgoledi (4).

The weeping boy told his mother his brothers were bleeding. Kekana could hear her sons groan in pain before they took their last breaths.

It was the last time she heard Tlholofelo’s voice.

Kekana last saw her boys the day before when they left Pretoria, where she works, for their home in Moletlane village near Zebediela, Limpopo. “They were in high spirits as we said goodbye.”

She and her husband had had a fight and his uncle had mediated their dispute. She thought everything was fine afterwards.

“All relationships have their problems and after his uncle intervened, he left us happy and on good terms, but I never expected anything to go wrong. We spent some time together before he left with the children and everything was okay.”

She said her husband then called to ask if she had any last words for the children.

After speaking to Tlholofelo, she told a neighbour there to check on the boys. The neighbour said they were dead.

She cannot understand what happened. “He was a good, caring father, and he and the boys were fond of each other. They loved him and he took good care of them,” she said.

The boys were buried yesterday

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