Alan Monswamy, his wife Sandy, with their children Kraidon and Shamarie.

Hours after his alleged accomplices appeared in the KwaDukuza Magistrate's Court in connection with the Monswamy family massacre, a 24-year-old man was arrested in Durban on Tuesday.

The suspect had been on the run since April 21, when Alan Monswamy, 52, his wife, Sandy, 57, their children, Kraidon, 26, and Shamaria, 20, and relatives Gonosagren Padayachee, 51, Mooniamma Padayachee, 78, and Mariama Happanah, 83, were allegedly abducted from their home in Newtown, near Newark.

The group was allegedly taken to Melmoth, where they were killed.

Police tracked the suspect to Durban and arrested him on charges of murder, kidnapping and house robbery.