The family of a four-year-old Soweto child have finally received justice.
The High Court in Johannesburg has sentenced her murderer to thirty years behind bars.
The judge ordered a non-parole period of 20 years imprisonment be fixed in respect of the effective years imprisonment imposed.
Nonhle Matsebula pleaded guilty to the murder of Keeya Mbulawa.
In January last year, the 37-year-old tied up the child and stashed her in a suitcase, until she died of suffocation.
During her testimony she told the court she intended to kidnap the child and extort money from her parents.
Keeya’s family has welcomed the lengthy sentence with family spokesperson Miller Moela affirming that this sentence is worse than life imprisonment.
