A 14-year-old boy has been arrested after he allegedly stabbed his mother to death at their home on Saturday.
Neither the boy nor his mother can be identified as he is a minor.
Police say the child is expected to make his first appearance at the Blue Down’s Magistrates’ Court on Monday on a charge of murder.
Close friends and neighbours of the family, who lived in Kalkfontein, Kuils River, described the single mother of four as a hardworking woman.
Tragedy struck on Saturday just before 6pm when the 55-year old woman apparently skelled the boy uit for sleeping out on Friday night.
A neighbour says the mother managed to tell them this before she collapsed to death outside her home.
The mother was said to be angry after finding love bites in the boy’s neck and wanted to moer him with a frying pan.
“She told us that he was lying on the bed with her cellphone and she asked him to give it back and grabbed it from him,” says the neighbour.
“She told him to go back to the place he came from because he didn’t sleep at home.
“He had two love bites in his neck. She took a frying pan to give him a hiding and then he grabbed it from her.
“She grabbed a knife and then he grabbed that from her and he stabbed her.
“She came out of the house, telling us: “Kyk wat het (using boy’s nickname) aan my gedoen.”
SCENE: Mom, 55, knifed to death at Kuils River home
She says they all rushed to the woman’s aid, wiping the blood from her head and back with a towel, but she died before they could call an ambulance.
A close friend of the woman claims the teen was often aggressive.
He was his mother’s youngest child, who along with an older teen sibling, stayed with her, while the two older siblings in their twenties stayed elsewhere.
“He is a friendly child, but is short-tempered and aggressive,” she says.
“They buried their grandmother last week and their home burnt down just over a year ago and they were living in this sink hokkie.
“She was a mother who would discipline her children by taking away the things they enjoy, (but) she loved her children.”
Police spokesperson, Captain FC van Wyk, confirms the incident and that the mom was stabbed several times.
“A murder case was registered for investigation.
“Circumstances surrounding the incident is currently unknown.
“A 14-year- old boy was arrested, and is due to appear in the Blue Downs
Magistrates’ Court soon.”