A 21-year-old suspect linked to the murder of a 76-year-old farm owner is set to appear in the Maclear Magistrate court on Thursday.
Captain Anelisa Feni of the Hawks in the Eastern Cape says Cebo Andile Mgabashe is accused of having participated in the murder of Louis Petrus van der Berg as well as the attempted murder of his wife Veronica.
He's also charged with the theft of a firearm, cash and cell phones.
It's alleged that on the 26th of October 2016, five men visited the van der Berg's farm in Maclear under the pretence that they were looking for their missing cow.
An argument erupted between the group of men and the farm owner who was attacked with knives and a blunt object.
His wife survived the attack.
The investigating team made their first breakthrough with the arrest of Mgabashe in Qumbu last week.
The other four suspects are still at large.
