At least three people have been arrested in connection to the recent burning of trucks.
Two of them, aged 27 and 29, respectively, were arrested on Thursday at their place of residence while the other suspect was arrested on Thursday evening.
National Police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe said they will appear in court on Monday.
“The first suspect was arrested on a farm in Piet Retief with the assistance of a private security firm and the other in Ermelo. Both suspects face a charge of malicious damage to property,” she said.
She added that the operations manager at ACSU private security firm in Mpumalanga, Bester Maree, said that after circulating information around of a suspect who was caught on camera, they received a flood of tip-offs, which led to them identifying one suspect through CCTV footage and then apprehending him.
“A lot of information came in and we verified it and around 12 o’clock last night we actually apprehended the suspect that was caught on camera inside the truck, burning it.”
Addressing the media on Wednesday, Minister of Police Bheki Cele said 12 people had been identified as suspects of interest by officers investigating what has been described as coordinated attacks on freight trucks
At least 21 trucks were torched in KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga since last weekend.
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