GAUTENG. – A suspect was taken into custody on Saturday evening in Tzaneen, Limpopo, in connection with the murder of a woman whose body was found at Mooifontein cemetery in Tembisa on Saturday morning.
Brig. Athlenda Mathe, national police spokesperson, says the suspect fled to Tzaneen after the murder, where he was traced and taken into custody by police members at around 23:00. Lt.Gen. Puleng Dimpane, the acting national police commissioner, commended the crime intelligence members in the Ekurhuleni district, Tembisa South detectives, the investigative psychology unit, experts from the Gauteng local criminal record centre and Bolobedu police station for their coordinated efforts.
Dimpane says the team's swift response and cooperation led to the suspect's arrest on the same day. She says police will continue to track down and act against people linked to murder and gender-based violence and femicide.
The investigation into the bodies of other women found in Ekurhuleni is ongoing. Police are following all available leads to establish what happened to the women and whether there is any connection between the cases.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
