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The community leader who refused to be named for fear of reprisals described the arrest as a breakthrough and expected other arrests to be made soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We can\u2019t hide the fact that we are excited by this development. We are expecting other arrests to take place; our wish is to see all the culprits rot in jail.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The source said the community intended to be the eyes and ears of the officers, since crime in <a href=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/cityvision\/town-two-clinic-torched-amid-marikana-protests-over-service-delivery\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"266586\">Marikana<\/a> was getting out of hand. He appealed for more officers to be deployed in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Provincial police spokesperson Brig Novela Potelwa said ongoing investigations into the Marikana multiple murders by provincial serious violent crime detectives led to a breakthrough on Friday 23 January, when a suspect was charged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNine people were shot and killed, eight men and a woman, and another was wounded when gunmen opened fire at a shebeen in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philippi,_Western_Cape\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philippi,_Western_Cape\">Philippi East<\/a> in the early hours of Saturday 17 January. The officer\u2019s team, comprising detectives, crime intelligence and combat members, arrested a 19-year-old suspect on Friday 23 January in Zwelethemba, Worcester.\u201d She said the officers\u2019 reports indicated three suspects entered the shebeen just after midnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSeveral shots were fired in the shack. 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