After reportedly assaulting and fatally stabbing his wife, the father of four shot himself in the head, dying instantly as police were preparing to enter the house on Thursday evening.

Inside the house police found the bloodied body of the 39-year-old mother of three children in the kitchen and that of her 51-year-old husband in the bathroom.

The couple were in the process of divorcing when they died in their home in Jasmin Street, Bronkhorstspruit, in Gauteng.

Their children, a four-year-old boy and two girls, aged 11 and five years, were at home when the deaths occurred. The husband also had a son from a previous marriage.

Neighbours said they heard the couple quarrelling late in the afternoon when the 11-year-old ran out of the family home screaming for help. A neighbour comforted her and stopped a passing car that drove them to the police station to get assistance.

Spokesman for the Bronkhorstspruit police cluster Johannes Japhta said that when police officers arrived at the house the gates were locked - with the young children standing near the house's garage.

"The police rammed the locked gate to gain entry ... a gunshot went off and when they got into the house, they discovered the two bodies."

A murder case and an inquest docket have been opened.

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Jan 7, 2013

TLekota

Shem
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Jan 7, 2013

Ponko.Fontoyo

So sad,this thing of killing will continue if the other gender is not taken serious.
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Jan 7, 2013

Mellow

*SIGH*
The more things change the more they stay the same!!! How depressing so over the years our fellow folks still havent learned value of life. I feel for the innocent kids
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Jan 7, 2013

MSG_S

A sad year for these innocent little lives.
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Jan 7, 2013

3litreV6

Another retard, when are these fools are going to learn.
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Jan 7, 2013

Papage

The secret is, if your first marriage never worked, don't try for the second time. Marriage is not for the Sfaint hearted, it is not like school, it is a commitment to one for life. We need Pastors and Ministers who can educate us about marriage before we tie the not, people must pass before they tie the knot. Poor kids, they are not alone though, God is there.
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Jan 7, 2013

Chichi7

and exactly what do these men gain when they kill? Innocent children are left behind to deal with the trauma as well as being orphans. Jeez
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Jan 7, 2013

Dubul'Amanzi

Since we don't know what was the fight all about,its worthless to comment.
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Jan 7, 2013

zuluchick

why i dont wanna get married
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Jan 7, 2013

Nongoloza24

He is the one who didn't want to live I fail to understabd why he had to kill the wife.

As to why the police opened a murder docket, that's waste of time.
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