KZN man pleads guilty to strangling his girlfriend’s three-year-old son, because another man answered her cellphone

A KwaZulu-Natal father-of-five who killed his girlfriend’s toddler son has been jailed to an effective 18 years. In a Section 105A plea and sentence agreement before the Pietermaritzburg High Court this week, Londa Emmanuel Mabaso admitted to the murder of his three-year-old stepchild, Melokuhle Manyoni. The murder incident took place on April 16, 2024, near Wembezi in Estcourt. In his guilty plea Mabaso, 31, an unemployed father of five, said he had been in a relationship with Melokuhle’s mother, Mbali Manyoni. They also shared a 18-month-old child. On the day of the murder, Mabaso…