Police in KwaZulu-Natal have arrested a 40-year-old woman wanted in connection with the murder of Warrick “DJ Warras” Stock, South Africans were told this week.
Provincial police spokesperson Colonel Robert Netshiunda said the woman was arrested on Wednesday afternoon in the Ngcengeni area of Msinga.
Netshiunda said she was arrested after members of visible policing received information that she was hiding in that area.
“Police followed up on information, which led them to a homestead in the Ngcengeni area in Msinga where the woman was hiding,” he said.
The woman is expected to be handed over to the police in Gauteng for further handling.
Stock was killed in December 2025 when he was gunned down outside Zambesi House, near Carlton Centre in the Johannesburg CBD. He was well known in Johannesburg’s nightlife circuit, and his death shocked communities already tense around the building.
According to reporting that has emerged around the case, DJ Warras was allegedly assisting with the enforcement of a court-ordered eviction against tenants at the time of his killing outside the property.
His death quickly became entangled in wider conflict around Zambesi House, where residents had raised objections and threatened retaliation. News24 previously reported that Zambesi House residents threatened to harm security guards and burn down the building after Stock’s security company, Vungama Security Company, was appointed to provide security and conduct security upgrades in July 2025.
The situation escalated further after Stock applied for a protection order against six residents of Zambesi House. Those residents appeared before the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on 12 December 2025.
While the protection order proceedings unfolded, the murder of Stock followed just days later. In the months since, investigations and court processes have shed more light on the circumstances of the attack and the people allegedly involved.
Last month, a major development came in the form of sentencing in the case tied to Stock’s killing. Mozambican Joaquim Armando Pacula, 25, who admitted to killing Stock in a R25 000 contract killing, was sentenced to an effective 25 years’ imprisonment in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg.
Pacula pleaded guilty to murder, unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition and contravening the Immigration Act. The plea and sentence were agreed to in a plea-and-sentence arrangement concluded with the State under Section 105A of the Criminal Procedure Act.
The court outcome underlined the seriousness of the charges and the punishment for those who allegedly acted on the contract instruction that resulted in Stock’s death.
At the same time, the legal process has continued against others linked to the murder. The case against another man, Victor Majola, also arrested in connection with the murder, remained before the court.
The alleged chain of events leading to the killing has also been detailed in the broader case. It is alleged that Pacula contacted Majola on 16 December to arrange for Stock to be killed for R25 000.
It is against this background that the KwaZulu-Natal arrest must be viewed. The latest development sees the provincial police taking into custody a woman who was reportedly wanted in relation to the murder, and who police say was hiding in the Ngcengeni area of Msinga.
Netshiunda’s statement suggests detectives were able to act after receiving information through visible policing structures, allowing them to locate the woman at a homestead in the area.
With the woman now arrested, the focus shifts to the next stage—her expected handover to police in Gauteng for further handling—while investigators and prosecutors continue piecing together the full picture of who played what role in Stock’s death.
For many who watched the case unfold, the arrest provides another step towards accountability in what has become one of the more closely followed murders to involve nightlife identities, security operations, and eviction-related tensions in central Johannesburg.
As the investigation progresses, court action continues to determine the responsibilities and culpability of those already before the courts, including the ongoing matter involving Victor Majola.
