Two men made a brief appearance in the Port Elizabeth Magistrate's Court on Monday in connection with the murder of a Gqeberha mother.
42-year-old Vicki Terblanche was reported missing by her boyfriend, 33-year-old Reinhardt Leach, last Thursday.
He has now been charged with her murder and appeared in court alongside his co-accused, 20-year-old Dylan Cullis.
The matter was postponed to the 27th of October for a possible bail application.
Terblanche's body was found in a shallow grave in Greenbushes in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Colonel Priscilla Naidu says a day after the missing person report was filed, police were called out to the victim's home at a complex in 1st avenue in Mill Park.
There was concern that something was amiss as the doors and garage doors of the house were wide open with no one inside.
Police roped in a forensic team and while they were busy at the house, Leach arrived stating that he lived on the property.
Detectives recognised him as the same person who reported his girlfriend missing the previous day.
Colonel Naidu says they took him in for questioning and a further probe led them to a house in Burd Street in Newton Park where Cullis was arrested.
She says after an intense investigation, detectives with the assistance of the K9 Rescue Unit found the body of Terblanche.
A post mortem will be conducted to determine the exact cause of death.
Leach, a former primary school teacher, shared the missing notice on Facebook asking anyone who has seen Vicki to contact him or her ex-husband.
The post has since been deleted.
