By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
SA Police Service (SAPS) in Kwazulu-Natal have made a major breakthrough when they arrested two suspects linked to the attempted murder of advocate Coreth Naude.
Naude was acting on behalf of the South African Revenue Services (SARS) in a tax inquiry involving businesswoman Shauwn Mkhize.
She was shot three times while arriving at her hotel at the Gateway Shopping Mall in Umhlanga, Durban.
The suspects, aged aged 28 and 29 years, were arrested in Cape Town on Tueday (December 17).
“Investigations led the team to two suspects, aged 28 and 29 years old, who were arrested in Mitchells Plain and Milnerton respectively,” explained Provincial SAPS spokesperson, Colonel Robert Netshiunda.
The suspects are set to appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court this week facing a charge of attempted murder.
Netshiunda said the case had been assigned to the Provincial Serious and Violent Crime: Murder and Robbery Unit.
After the attempted hit, SARS Commissioner, Edward Kieswetter, condemned the attempted assassination.
“Acts such as these and those who perpetrate them must be resisted and defeated by all of us working together for the betterment of our country and ensuring that none is above the law…we will not be intimidated by such acts of crime and cowardice,” he said at the time.