At the Sonskynhoekie (Sunshine) Care Centre, a non-profit shelter in the countryside north of Pretoria, Nataja Liadeque, 31, gets her hair cut by another resident Hendrik Coetsee, 29. She holds a photograph of one of her three daughters. Two were taken away by the state and the other was adopted by her father. "Mood swings" is how she describes the state of mind that inspired her to chase her former employer with a butcher knife at a kitchenware store.