The child was taken to a hotel in Midrand by her mother Esther and her uncle, Mike, where they performed a ritual on her, sexually assaulting her and strangling her to death.
Twenty-five-year-old Mike Mwenda Brown and his sister, 27-year-old Esther were on Wednesday handed three life sentences for the murder and rape of the toddler in April last year.
The Johannesburg high court on Wednesday jailed siblings for life for murdering two-year-old Athalia Bombando, who was raped, then killed, in a hotel room in Waterfall, Midrand.