A man has been convicted of strangling his common-law wife after finding she was cheating on him.
But Ramakgale Mokoena claimed in mitigation that he put his hands around Tebogo Brenda Ramafatse's throat to make her let go of his testicles. A row broke out on November 28, when Mokoena visited Ramafatse at the Tshikondeni mine in Venda where she lived and worked, the Pretoria High Court heard.