Mitchell’s Plain police arrested a man and seized a firearm and a magazine containing six rounds of ammunition in Tafelsig last week.
The man, aged 27, had been standing outside in Sentinel Street, Tafelsig, around 9pm on Tuesday June 2, when police spotted him, and he started running as police approached him.
After police apprehended him, they took him back to where he had been standing, and found the firearm and ammunition.
He is expected to appear in court soon.
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