Pretoria - A 24-year-old man made a brief appearance in the Pretoria North Magistrate Court, where he was charged with the 2010 brutal killing of teenager Anika Smit.
Andreas Johannes van Wyk handed himself over to the police on Friday, claiming to have information regarding Anika's murder.
Van Wyk was charged with murder, rape, and mutilation.
Smit's death has been shrouded with mystery since she was found dead in her Theresa Park home.
Her hands were cut off and her body riddled with stab wounds. Her throat had been slit and she had been raped. The missing body parts were never found.
Coincidentally, the inquest into her murder was scheduled to resume in the same court in which Van Wyk appeared on Monday.
Previously at the inquest, testimony on satanism and occult activities took centre stage when a witness known as “Vampire” took the stand. The young man had used the name on the messaging app Mxit.
Vampire attended Pretoria North High School and had allegedly been bullied by other pupils because of his thin build.
He said the reputation of being affiliated with satanism followed him when he transferred to Gerrit Maritz High School, the same school Anika attended.
Vampire was one of numerous people taken in for questioning days after Anika’s death.
In February, the inquest heard that Anika could also have dabbled in satanism and the occult following claims made by a neighbour.
Her neighbour Roelof Pottas said this was because of the way the teen changed her hair colour, nail colour and lip colour to black.
Pottas told the court that he believed she was possibly involved with satanism shortly before she was murdered.
The teenager had not gone to school on the day of her death because of an ear infection and Nico Venter, the boyfriend with whom she had just broken up, was arrested.
After charges against him were withdrawn, the investigation came to a standstill when investigating officer Major Mike van Aardt was transferred to handle the Oscar Pistorius case.
The inquest had been instituted in 2014 by magistrate Pierre Wessels, who said at the time that the aim was not to convict or acquit, but to allow records to assist him in deciding if there was sufficient evidence to prosecute anyone for the murder.
Wessels would examine records from the case, including the withdrawal of charges against Venter.