Overview
- Police confirmed the 41-year-old shot himself at a Brakpan filling station on Saturday night in front of his partner, Sergeant Juan Mare Eksteen, with CCTV footage collected.
- An inquest docket has been registered, and investigators have seized Pretorius’s firearms and cell phones for forensic examination.
- Pretorius was a primary person of interest in the murder of Madlanga Commission witness Marius van der Merwe and had been questioned by detectives.
- He survived an alleged attempted hit two days earlier in Boksburg, where at least 16 rounds were fired at his vehicle.
- SAPS says it is probing whether a syndicate is eliminating members linked to the Emmanuel Mbhense case, as IPID’s probe sits with the DPP, and the president has urged stronger, more anonymous witness protections.