Minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says the public and media should not assume that the murder of Marius van der Merwe, who appeared as Witness D at the Madlanga commission, was in any way linked to the inquiry.
Van der Merwe was shot last Friday, and police have since taken in a person of interest for questioning.
During his evidence at the commission, Van der Merwe said Julius Mkhwanazi, the suspended deputy police chief of the Ekurhuleni metro, ordered him to dispose of the body of a robbery suspect who had been murdered during an interrogation in Brakpan in 2022.
