9 to be established by the evidence which shows the reason why the accused stabbed the deceased to death. At one breath the accused claims that she did not want to stab the deceased but she was merely threatening to stab in order to frighten her and everybody who may have intended to attack her. At another breath the accused seems to say that she stabbed the deceased in order to defend herself from the attack the deceased had already commenced upon her own person. The position adopted by the accused presents two faces. If the stabbing of the deceased occurred while the accused was waving or brandishing the knife about, in order to frighten the girls away, it was therefore unintentional. It could perhaps be said to be accidental. If the stabbing was done deliberately in retaliation for a first fist blow delivered by the deceased upon the person of the accused and to stop the on-coming or second blow, it was international. The evidence by the crown witnesses and supported in all material respects by the evidence of the accused person's own friend and classmate, LILAHLOANE SELLO, shows without a doubt, that the accused waylaid the deceased. The accused and her friend and classmate LILAHLOANE SELLO were walking home together as usual. The deceased and her classmate and friend PW1 MOLELEKENG and two others were seen across the river by accused and her

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