Africa-Press – South-Africa. Three people are expected to appear in court in connection with the murder of Hillary Gardee, Mpumalanga police said on Sunday.
Hillary was the daughter of former EFF secretary-general Godrich Gardee.
The first person arrested was a 39-year-old man, who was apprehended in Schoemansdal, Nkomazi.
The provincial police commissioner, Lieutenant-General Semakaleng Daphney Manamela, said another two men were arrested in Mbombela between the late hours of Saturday and early hours of Sunday.
Manamela said:
Two of the people arrested are said to be an Eswatini-born civil servant-cum-politician as well as the adopted son of an eminent politician.
City Press reported that the Eswatini national works in the Mpumalanga provincial legislature, is a former Students’ Representative Council president at the University of the Witwatersrand, and is also a member of the pro-democracy People’s United Democratic Movement.
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Hillary was laid to rest in Nelspruit on Saturday.
She went missing on Friday, 29 April, after she was last seen at Nelspruit Plaza SuperSpar in the Mbombela central business district at around 17:30.
Her body was discovered on Tuesday in a timber plantation, approximately 40km outside Mbombela.
Those arrested are expected to appear in the Nelspruit Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
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