Suspect in Dr Matea’s murder nabbed
NTWANE – A 36 year-old man has been arrested in Shoshanguve, North of Pretoria in connection with the December 2020 house robbery, kidnapping and murder of 48 year-old businessman, Dr Ramatsemetse Matea in Ntwane Village, Dennilton outside Groblersdal.
According to police, a team of investigators attached to the Limpopo provincial organized crime unit arrested the suspect on 06 January 2023.
Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo, Limpopo Provincial Police Spokesperson, explained that Matea and his family were asleep in their house in the early hours of Thursday, 24 December 2020 at Ntwane Village in Dennilton when three men allegedly entered.
Mojapelo said the three assailants demanded cash and in the process, ransacked the house and took undisclosed amount of cash and jewellery.
“The suspects then tied up the victim’s wife and three children and thereafter, forced him to his Toyota bakkie and drove away with him. His body was found with bullets wounds in the area at about 6:00 that morning. The vehicle was later found abandoned at Thambo View,” explained Mojapelo.
The Provincial Commissioner of Police in Limpopo, Lieutenant General Thembi Hadebe has commended the team for arresting the suspect and urged community members to continue assisting the police in the fight against crime.
The suspect, Thabo Kleinboy Magaela appeared in the Moutse Magistrate’s Court facing charges of robbery, kidnapping and murder on Monday, 09 January 2023 and his case was postponed to 12 January 2023 for formal bail application.
