A tenth suspect, another teenager, has been arrested in connection with the brutal murder of Thoriso Themane, 27, last month in Polokwane, Limpopo police said on Saturday.
“The provincial commissioner of the South African Police Service [SAPS] in Limpopo Lt-Gen Nneke Ledwaba is elated by the continued sterling efforts manifested by the detectives involved in the investigation of the brutal murder of Thoriso when the tenth suspect was apprehended,” spokesman Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo said in a statement.
The 13-year-old suspect was arrested on Friday after he was brought to Polokwane police station by his parents. “This after intense investigations were gradually closing the net around this latest suspect. The teenager is a scholar at the local agricultural school and a resident in the vicinity where the crime was committed,” Mojapelo said.
Soon after Themane was murdered on Saturday, February 23, “social media went abuzz with the video of his brutal attack circulating on various platforms and subsequent to this the police put into action the 72-hour activation plan”.
Source IOL
