It is understood that the old woman from 16th Avenue in #Alexandra was concerned about his son always arriving late at the house and reprimanded him before going to bed.
The suspect sneaked into her mother’s bedroom subsequently strangling her and suffocating her with a blanket until she passed away.
Alexandra police spokesperson Sergeant Simphiwe Mbatha says the man confessed the murder to his relatives, paramedics and police.
Mbatha says the suspect took a plasma TV set and a cellphone selling them for R3000 in total and later went for drugs and alcohol shopping spree for his friends.
Apparently the mother tried to empower his son by buying him a taxi (Avanza) to make money for himself but this was not enough.