GAUTENG – Goodenough Ntshongwane (39) was found guilty and sentenced on five counts of unlawful possession of prohibited firearms and three counts of unlawful possession of ammunition by the Kempton Park Regional Court on 20 October 2022.

The Hawks’ Serious Organised Crime Investigation team and Gauteng Crime Intelligence conducted a multidisciplinary operation after receiving information of a suspect who was in possession of firearms in Birchleigh, Kempton Park. The investigation team ran with the intelligence and upon arrival at Ntshongwane’s residence on Umunga Street, authorities found a R4 fully automatic rifle, a LM5 semi-automatic rifle, Dashprod semi-automatic rifle, two 9mm pistols and over 400 ammunition of different calibres.

Ntshongwane was on 12 March 2018 arrested, firearms and ammunition were seized for further investigation. During the investigation, it was discovered that the firearms were reportedly utilised in different cash-in-transit (CIT) robberies in December 2016 at Pienaar in the Mpumalanga province, in October 2017 at Mmakau and January 2017 in Katlehong.

The court ordered the prison term of 22 years direct imprisonment.

Source: South African Police Service