A former senior South African Police Service (SAPS) general is arrested after investigators find more than 100 rounds of ammunition during a raid at his Centurion home earlier this year. The arrest is linked to an investigation that also connects to the 2021 murder of Lieutenant-General Sindile Mfazi, then deputy national commissioner of crime detection.

Multiple outlets report that investigators from the SAPS National Cold Case Unit also seize documents and electronic devices during the probe. These materials are expected to support further work on the Mfazi matter, with reporting noting that the general is 57 years old. The Citizen and IOL add that he is due to appear before the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court, while other coverage describes the case as part of the ongoing fallout within the police service.

While the articles focus on the ammunition seizure, they consistently frame it as occurring in the same investigative context as the Mfazi murder, rather than as an isolated incident.