Buso killed Orabile Buso (8) and Oratile Buso (5) with rat poison, after using the last of the food in the house, before stabbing her teenage daughter Anathi to death and then hanging herself. It is understood that she was deeply in debt and the family was often starving.
A 53-year-old man was due to appear in the Peddie Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday after a child, who was subjected to ‘exceptional cruelty’, managed to escape from a shack in his rural village, dragging behind him the chains used to keep him locked up.