Paida Fish, 20, Samuel Mabena, 25, and Chris Moyo, 24, face charges of  murder and  robbery with aggravating circumstances. The trio were arrested in the Oukasie informal settlement near Brits after  a tip-off.

They remained in police custody after the case was postponed for further investigation when they appeared in court last week.

 Sanders, 46, was shot  at the Tha-tch Haven Country Lodge near Brits on September 22. He died the next day in Kalafong Hospital in Pretoria after undergoing emergency surgery. He was laid to rest last week.

One of the accused, Samuel Mabena, appeared in court last week in connection with the murder of Mauritz Oberholzer, 65, on September 5 on a plot in  Brits.