MTUBATUBA detectives last week arrested the grandmother of a three-year-old child who was brutally murdered in Nkunduse, north of Mtubatuba, in December.
Detectives said witness statements strongly linked the 60-year-old woman to the murder.
She made her second appearance in the Mtubatuba Magistrate’s Court on Monday but did not plead, and was released on R1 500 bail.
The case was remanded to Tuesday.
Crowds gathered at Mtubatuba Court and community members demanded police hold a meeting at Nkunduse with the local iNduna.
Station Commander, Col Mngomezulu, said they must let the law run its course and that they must not take matters into their own hands.
‘We obtained witness statements which led us to this arrest, and we will obtain more statements if necessary,’ said Mtubatuba SAPS Communications Officer, Captain Justice Hlabisa.
‘We must let the law run its course and let the truth come out.’
Initially a missing persons case, the boy was last seen alive when he was reportedly with some older children who he followed when they left their homestead.
He went missing and his mutilated body was found three days later floating in the Nyalazi River.
Community members descended on a local sangoma whose house they threatened to burn down.
Police arrested the man, but later released him as there was insufficient evidence linking him to the murder.
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