Retired judge Mbuyiseni Madlanga at the Brigitte Mabandla Justice College in Pretoria on 27 October 2025. Picture: Gallo Images Captain Laurance Makgotloe, the ballistics expert who analysed the Armand Swart murder scene, has defended the errors found in his report. 30-year-old Swart, an employee at Q Tech Engineering Company based in Vereeniging, was shot and killed while seated in his vehicle outside his workplace by two suspects who were driving a white Hyundai i20 on 17 April 2024.
He sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was declared dead on the scene. It was reported that the suspects orchestrated the assassination in order to silence him after he blew the whistle about fraud and corruption linked to a Transnet tender contract. However, some reports say it was a case of mistaken identity.
Four men – Sandton businessman Katiso “KT” Molefe, former police detective Michael Pule Tau, Musa Kekana, and Tiego Floyd Mabusela – have been arrested in connection with the case. Investigating officer, only known as Witness B, previously raised suspicions that Makgotloe may have made errors in his ballistics report to derail the investigation. Witnesses A, B and C are living in safe houses and are involved in investigations into Gauteng criminal cartels.
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Makgotloe was on standby duty the day Swart was murdered. “On arrival at the crime scene, I noted that it was cordoned off and there were a number of police officers,” explained Makgotloe. “We started processing the scene, which took a few hours.
We agreed that the ballistic analysis of the Vereeniging crime scene was going to be conducted by me. It is common practice for standby ballistics analysts to allocate crime scenes attended evenly to distribute the workload fairly. In this regard, I would be the one to complete the crime scene report for the Vereeniging case.
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