A woman wanted for her involvement in an alleged terror plot by the National Christian Resistance Movement (NCRM), also known as the "Crusaders", has been arrested.
Riana Heymans was arrested on Friday evening with two other alleged accomplices in Kliprivier in Johannesburg by an integrated team of South African Police Service (SAPS) crime intelligence operatives and Hawks members from the serious organised crime investigation unit.
A spokesperson for the Hawks Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi said various firearms and ammunition, documents, and other items were confiscated by the criminal record centre (CRC) for further probing.
The three suspects would appear in the Middelburg Magistrates' Court in Mpumalanga on Monday, together with Harry Johannes Knoesen, 60, charged with contravening the Protection of Constitutional Democracy against Terrorism and Related Activities (POCDATARA) Act as well as harbouring a wanted suspect in terms of the same Act.
Mulaudzi also clarified that a house in the Eastern Cape, which on Friday the Hawks said belonged to Knoesen, in fact, belonged to another alleged "Crusader member and follower of Knoesen".
Knoesen is a retired pastor and former SANDF member and will also appear in court on Monday.
The Hawks said that the arrest of 60-year-old Harry Johannes Knoesen followed an extensive two-year intelligence-led investigation into the alleged terrorist plot apparently coordinated by the group to target national key points, shopping malls and informal settlements.
