The Hawks are trying to piece together how a civilian walked into the Motherwell Magistrate's Court on Wednesday morning with a firearm, which was used to shoot dead a court orderly.
Five Eastern Cape family members, including a child, were gunned down in their homestead in Luphondo, near Lusikisiki, during the early morning hours of Monday.
The woman accused of bludgeoning her four children to death with a sledgehammer is set to appear in the Engcobo Magistrate's Court in the Eastern Cape.
Eastern Cape police have appealed to the public to come forward with information on the cause of a fire that claimed the lives of Methodist Church reverend Mandisi Mphithi, his wife, and three children at their mission home near Cala.