FOREIGN Affairs has washed its hands of a South African woman who may be hanged after being convicted in Botswana of murdering her husband’s former wife. Foreign Affairs spokesman Daniel Ngwepe said on Tuesday that there is little South Africa can do to save the woman’s life. “Once sentence is passed, South Africa would not be in a position to interfere,” he said. Mariette Wolmarans was convicted in the Lobatse High Court on Monday of shooting dead Ria Wolmarans in June 1996. She married the woman’s widower Tienie about one year later. Ngwepe said the SA High Commission in Botswana has afforded Wolmarans all the consular assistance normally given to South Africans in detention abroad.