"This does not inhibit our investigation, " said Medupe Simasiku, a spokesman for South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority.
The National Prosecuting Authority said that no South Africans have been linked to the suspects but that further arrests were possible.
Bulewa Makeke, spokeswoman for South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority, said the attempted murder charges had been reinstated against Botha on Feb. 4.
But the National Prosecuting Authority said that no links have been established between the 19 men arrested Tuesday and the M23 group.
The spokesman for the National Prosecuting Authority, Medupe Simasiku, denied that Carl Pistorius was only prosecuted because of his younger brother's high-profile murder case.
The Service Prosecuting Authority (SPA), an independent body that conducts prosecutions on behalf of the military, decided the five should face murder charges.
Murder charges against two Royal Marines, suspected of killing a prisoner in Afghanistan, have been dropped, the Service Prosecuting Authority (SPA) as confirmed.
"The National Prosecuting Authority has confirmed that the condition that he report to the Brooklyn police station has not been made an order of court, " one official said.
Eric Ntabazalila, regional spokesman for the National Prosecuting Authority said he would seek a life sentence against the pair "considering how gruesome the murder was", reports the AFP news agency.
Hilton Botha was removed as chief investigating officer Thursday after the prosecuting authority of Mpumalanga province, in early February, reinstated an attempted murder charge against him for a 2011 incident.
Bulelwa Makeke, the spokeswoman for South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority, said before the announcement of Botha's removal that the accusations against the investigator would be little more than a "speed bump" in the Pistorius case.
But they cannot open an investigation without the authority of a prosecuting magistrate, who comes under the minister of justice, and can, as in the case of the woman who recommended an investigation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the finance minister who resigned under a cloud last year, be transferred at will.
Prosecuting barrister Martin Goudie claimed Mr King knew that when he submitted details to the Civil Aviation Authority relating to the number of training flying hours completed by Mr Spencer they were wrong.
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