Private security company, Vision Tactical, said van der Merwe was a former EMPD member and owner of QRF Task Team.
National South African Police Service (SAPS) spokesperson, Brigadier Athlenda Mathe confirmed that police were alerted to a shooting in Brenthurst, in Brakpan, late on Friday.
Three weeks ago, van der Merwe implicated Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) Brigadier Julius Mkhwanazi in wrongdoing, claiming that Mkhwanazi ordered him to cover up a murder of a suspect at the hands of EMPD and SAPS officers.
Van der Merwe’s testimony was not on camera.
Marius “Vlam” van der Merwe was gunned down in Brakpan on Friday. He is believed to have been Witness D at the Madlanga Commission
IOL reported that the ordeal began on April 15, 2022, when security firm boss Kobus Janse van Rensburg repeatedly phoned him about joining a joint operation at the home of a Brakpan robbery suspect.
Van der Merwe told the Commission that Mkhwanazi ordered that the deceased suspect’s body be dumped, either in a mineshaft or in a dam.
Van der Merwe further added that he complied out of fear, thinking he would be killed.
He said he put the suspect’s body in a van and dumped it in a dam in Nigel.
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The Madlanga Commission has extended its condolences to the family of Witness D, Marius 'Vlam' van der Merwe, who was gunned down in front of his family in Brakpan on Friday. Merwe, 41, was shot dead just after 8pm, according to National Police spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe.Acting Gauteng Police Commissioner General Fred Kekana said a manhunt has been launched for suspects, believed to have been travelling in a white Nissan […]
