This after the state prosecutor, Johan de Vries, indicated that the decision to post the matter is to allow the National Director of Public Prosecution (NDDP) to decide whether to transfer this case, combined with others against Masiu, to the High Court. He is facing various other charges, including murder, robbery, the possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition, committed during 2018 and 2019. The murder case of Tshabalala is the sixth crime the accused is facing in court. The other five cases are not related to the murder of Tshabalala. Some of his co-accused in other cases have either been arrested or are still at large. Judge Ryan Ishmail postponed the matter to 15 January 2020 and Masiu remains in custody.

Masiu was arrested in August 2019 after evading arrest in 2018 while in hospital attending to the gunshot wound he sustained during the shoot-out with Captain Tshabalala. Masiu has been a regular feature in crimes around Park Road and Bloemspruit, which include murder, attempted murder, and business robbery, committed with unlicensed firearms. Masiu and his accomplice, Sprinkaan Maema, who is serving a 33-year jail sentence, is accused of killing Tshabalala in 2018 after they fatally shot him whilst he was attending to a complaint in Phelindaba in Mangaung. Masiu is alleged to have committed another two crimes around Park Road, two at Bloemspruit, and one at Kagisanong, apart from allegedly killing Tshabalala, which was committed in Phelindaba. He previously admitted to De Vries that he is in the country illegally.

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