Mpumalanga Safety, Security and Liaison MEC, Sibongile Manana welcomes the detention of a suspect linked to the existence of the alleged hit list.
"We commend our police for the progress made so far in detaining the suspect although there is still a lot of work to be done to ultimately bring all people involved in the hit list matter to book. It shows that the approach of investigating cases in order to arrest, rather than arresting suspects in order to investigate is working," says Manana.
The MEC would like to indicate that investigations into the other murder cases involving Sammy Mpatlanyane and Jimmy Mohlala are well underway.
Police will continue to follow all leads into these cases, and arrests will be made where it is deemed necessary, based on the investigations.
The detention comes six weeks after the office of the MEC received a fax from a local internet shop in Nelspruit. The fax had a list of ten individuals who were allegedly targeted for assassination by a group of unknown people.
The names included those of the late Sammy Mpatlanyane and Jimmy Mohlala. A copy of the fax was at the same time sent to the police for investigation into the existence of such a list.