A packed gallery exploded into ululations, but it was the tears of two protagonists – convicted triple murderer Pontsho Mohlanka and the man who nailed her, Warrant Officer Vuyo Mzazi – that caught the eye.

Mohlanka, a tavern owner in Orange Farm, south of Johannesburg, was yesterday found guilty of killing three children – Mzwandile Zitho, 5, in April 2020, and the double murders of Simphiwe Mgcina, 6, and Mpho Makondo, 8, in September 2020 – just five months apart...