A large quantity of ammunition which was allegedly stolen from the Hoedspruit air force base in South Africa has been found on a farm near Carolina in Mpum-alanga, News24.com reported yesterday.


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The approximately 17,000 rounds, of which more than half are for R4 assault rifles, were found in a house rented by a former air force flight instructor.

The suspect, whose identity is known to Beeld, is currently in Nigeria where he is supposedly working as a mercenary.

The police carried out the raid on the farm Jaglus, about 10km outside Carolina, on Monday night after receiving a tip-off about the ammunition.

The suspect rents a house on the farm. Three firearms (for which the suspect does have licences) were also seized.

These firearms are a 9mm pistol, a .303 and a .22 rifle.

The police also suspect that there are illegal firearms in a second safe discovered in the house.

Apparently this second safe will only be opened once the suspect has returned to South Africa.

The information about where the ammunition was kept was apparently given to police after they conducted a raid last week on Willem Ratte and nine other men.

Leonard Hlathi, spokesperson for the unit against organised crime in Mpumalanga, confirmed that the seized ammunition is being kept at the police station in Carolina.

He could not say whether there is any link between the raids on Ratte and the farm at Carolina.

The ammunition also included hundreds of 12-gauge, .22, .303 and 9mm rounds.

Meanwhile Beeld has determined that plans are being made to bring the suspect back to South Africa from Nigeria by the weekend.

Hmm, who hired this man. What is going on oh. The plot thickens again.

Wherever vultures circle in the sky, there is likely a dead person or animal beneath them.

Wherever South African mercenaries from Executive Outcomes and Sandline International gather, a country is dying.

at last the man who rigged the abuja carbombs. God is faithful. Nigerian intel should hunt dwn mr beeld at once. The truth is grad coming out

@ idupaul

"mr beeld" is a newspaper

Very interested in knowing what this man is doing in Nigeria.SSS better catch him now and question him intensely before deporting him to SA.Smells like a rat.Something is about to go down in that country.

@Msansigirl lol. notwithstanding i think the man was the one that rigged those bombs in abuja. Or maybe he was brought in to use a 50 cal on the president

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Yes I think so too.There is a big plan going on and it needs to be investigated

Things are going from bad to worse. Whenever mercenaries are involved in a country, you should definitely worry.

are we congo now?

Instead of Congo Crisis, we should be saying Nigerian Crisis.

bawomolo:

are we congo now?

I fear we are moving toward ir. may God save naija