The matter against Agnes Setshwantsho, who is accused of killing her family members for insurance payout, has been postponed by the Molopo Magistrates Court for the Director of Public Prosecutions in the North West to authorise the transfer of the case to a higher court, owing to its serious nature. The court heard that the investigations into the matter are at an advanced stage.

Setshwantso was denied bail in December 2023. The court ruled that she failed to prove any exceptional circumstance for her to be granted bail. Setshwantsho is facing a charge of murder, two of fraud and one of defeating the ends of justice. NPA spokesperson Henry Mamothame explained that the South African Police reported that on 16 November 2023, an intelligence operation led to the arrest of the accused on suspicion that she murdered her relatives to benefit from insurance claims. "The suspect was traced and arrested in Centurion, during a takedown operation led by the SAPS in collaboration and full cooperation with an insurance company."

He said the police further reported that in the past two months, Sergeant Keshi Mabunda, and a team of detectives have been working on the case following a tip-off from relatives of this suspect. "Through analysis and collection of evidence, including the exhumation of two bodies, the team was able to link the suspect to the team's first focus of the case. According to the police report, the murder that was initially ruled as a 'natural death' happened in Mmabatho, in the North West, where a female relative died under mysterious circumstances in March 2023. Investigations have revealed that the suspect fraudulently took out insurance, on behalf of her relative before her murder. About the case sitting at the Kuruman Magistrate's Court, where she is charged with the murder of her son, the state intends to make an application for the cases to be centralised in the North West Division. Meanwhile, the accused will remain in police custody until the matter is concluded.