SUSPECT IN SAULSVILLE’S BLOODY TARVEN MASSACRE ARRESTED!
Following the indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of 12 people and many as 13 left with serious injuries, the Gauteng Serious and Violent Crime Investigations’ team has arrested a 32-year-old suspect in Limpopo on 21 December.
The suspect will be charged with 12 counts of murder and 13 counts of attempted murder.
The team, comprising various SAPS specialised units including Crime Intelligence, during investigations traced the suspect who was travelling to Botlokwa in Limpopo.
They called the police in Limpopo and gave the description of the suspect and the vehicle he was travelling in.
The 32-year-old suspect was intercepted by Limpopo Tracking Team on the R101 Road in Westenburg precinct.
During the arrest, the team recovered an unlicensed firearm, a handgun, believed to have been used in the commission of the multiple murders.
The firearm will be taken to the Forensic Science Laboratory for ballistic analysis.
The suspect was expected to appear before the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court today, 22 December 2025, to face another charge of possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition.
He will then be transferred to Gauteng to face the full might of the law.
The manhunt for the remaining two suspects is continuing.
On 6 December 2024, three suspects shot and killed 12 people and injured 13 others at an illegal shebeen operating from a hostel room in Saulsville.
The investigation team has been working tirelessly to trace the perpetrators.
Provincial Commissioner of the South African Police Service in Gauteng, Lieutenant General Tommy Mthombeni, has commended the team that worked in collaboration with Limpopo police to apprehend the suspect and for working around the clock to crack this case.
“We are thankful that one of the suspects has been arrested. We are confident that the remaining two suspects will be arrested so that these perpetrators can answer to the heinous crimes that they have committed,” said Lt Gen Mthombeni.
