The University of Fort Hare’s (UFH) director of investigations and vetting services, Isaac Plaatjies, 56, will spend three weeks in jail before he gets an opportunity to apply for bail.
The police’s national task team into killings at UFH announced “another breakthrough” when it arrested Plaatjies on Friday on two charges of murder and three charges of attempted murder.
The case involves a deadly power battle at UFH’s Alice campus, which left the university’s fleet manager, Petrus Roets, and the bodyguard of vice-chancellor Sakhela Buhlungu, Mbonise Vesele, dead and several other officials, including Buhlungu, fearing for their lives after bullet attacks.
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