Cape Town – Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema says his party is involved in the investigation of the murder of Hillary Gardee.
Malema said this during a media briefing at the party’s Johannesburg offices on Monday.
He said that the EFF had hired private investigators to probe the matter.
“We are involved in the investigation, and we have employed private investigators. A majority of the people who are arrested were arrested through our intervention, the latest being somewhere in Witbank. It was us who said to the police ‘here is the person who was looking for an account of FNB so that they can transfer R500 000 into that account. He wanted someone with an account of FNB for R500 000 to be transferred so that he can cash it and then perhaps disappear or something of that sort.
“That was brought to our private investigation unit and we were able to identify the culprit, the fourth suspect, and we alerted the police and arrested the suspect. It looked like something that had to do with a ritual and therefore I would not be personally shocked when there is muti involved and all manner of things,” said Malema.
[In Case You Missed It]: CIC @Julius_S_Malema says the EFF hired Private Investigators to assist with the Hillary Gardee murder case and majority of those apprehended, it is through that team. #EFFPresser pic.twitter.com/EZQOc46XAx
— Economic Freedom Fighters (@EFFSouthAfrica) May 16, 2022
Hillary was the daughter of former EFF secretary-general Godrich Gardee.
She went missing on April 29 after a shopping trip to a Spar near her home in Mbombela, Mpumalanga.
Hillary was found dead in a field outside Mbombela, on May 3 with a gun wound on her head.
Sipho Lawrence Mkatshwa, Philemon Lukhele and Mduzuzi Gama were arrested and charged with murder, rape, conspiracy to commit murder, kidnapping and possession of illegal firearms.
The trio appeared in the Mbombela Magistrate’s Court on Monday last week where they abandoned their bail application.
The case was rescheduled to June 9.
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Compiled by Sinothando Siyolo
