The gun used to kill South Africa’s mining tycoon Brett Kebble was cut into pieces and scattered along a Johannesburg road, the High Court in Johannesburg heard on Wednesday.

 The state's fourth witness and an accomplice in the killing, Faizel Smith, also known as "Kappie", told the court he took charge of disposing of the weapon after Kebble was shot dead in Melrose on September 27, 2005.

"I took the pieces of the gun with me... I threw the pieces along the road driving home," said Smith, also a section 204 witness in drug kingpin Glenn Agliotti's trial.

He said he threw the barrel and magazine of the weapon into the Klip River, south of Johannesburg.

Smith, like his accomplices, boxer Mikey Schultz and Nigel McGurk, described the Kebble shooting to the court.

He told the court all his "instructions" for the shooting came from Schultz. He described his relationship with Schultz and McGurk  as a close one.

"We [are] best friends, like brothers," he said.

During cross-examination of Smith, Agliotti's counsel advocate Laurence Hodes established that Agliotti had not conspired with him to "aid or procure" Kebble's death.

Smith said Agliotti had never conspired with him, nor had he ever paid him for the shooting.

After his brief testimony, Smith left the witness stand.

Judge Frans Kgomo told him that it would be decided once the trial concluded whether he would receive indemnity from prosecution.

Section 204 of the Criminal Procedure Act says that a witness may be granted full indemnity on a charge should he testify for the  state and the court deems this testimony to be honest and frank.

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