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FILE | Ballistics analysis.
The AK47 rifle that was found in possession of murder accused Katiso “KT” Molefe and Warrant Officer Pule Tau in Bramley, Johannesburg, has been linked to the murders of DJ Sumbody, DJ Vintos and Don Tindleni. The weapon was found after Vereeniging Engineer Armand Swart was gunned down.
This is according to senior forensic analyst Captain Solomon Modisane who works with ballistic forensics attached to the Kwazulu-Natal Political Killings Task Team.
Modisane was testifying at the Madlanga Commission.
“That AK-47 commissioners is the same AK-47 that was found in the suspects that were arrested in Bramley Case 149 of 4-2024. This is the same (weapon), commissioners, that murdered DJ Sumbody and DJ Vintos and Mr. Don Tindleni,” says Modisane.
Modisane has told the Commission that he was assigned to the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT) to assist with forensic ballistic examinations to link politically-related killings.
Modisane says he was also requested to conduct an examination on the firearms seized in the Swart case.
“I was requested to do a comparative ballistics examination by comparing the ballistics results on Bramley Case 14904/2024, which is the murder of Mr Swart. I was requested to compare it with the Sandton Case 398 of 11/2022 where DJ Sumbody was murdered, together with his body guards. The other case was Orlando Case 93 of 2/2023where Mr Don Tindleni was killed. And the third case was Orlando Case 220 of 3/2022 where DJ Vintos was killed,” says Modisane.
Modisane says that it took him a full day to complete the comparative analysis brought to him by police in Emanzimtoti, KwaZulu-Natal.
These were the exhibits sent from Pretoria that included the murder cases of DJ Sumbody, Dj Vintos and Armand Swart.
Modisane, who has now completed his evidence at the Madlanga Commission, says the turnaround time in ballistics is usually 30 days.
He says, “This was unique to the PKTT (Political Killing Task Team) group, PKTT, commissioners. It was unique. Our turnaround time, our normal turnaround time in ballistics analysis, our normal working turnaround time, it’s 30 days, if I’m not mistaken, to finish the case. Our turnaround time, we made our own time in the PKTT as ballistics to three days, commissioners.”
Senior Forensic Analyst at the SAPS Forensic Science Laboratory in Pretoria, Captain Meldon Mkhatshwa will now take the stand.
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