A man arrested in connection with illegal firearms and hundreds of rounds of live ammunition found at a Cape Town house last week is under police guard in hospital.
The 59-year-old was held on Sunday after police raided his wooden farmhouse in Durbanville, seizing a "huge assortment of explosives, firearms, ammunition and replica firearms" in a wardrobe and grocery cupboard on Friday.
The cupboard wall was decorated with pictures of German soldiers, Adolph Hitler and a Nazi flag.
Yesterday, Western Cape police spokesman Captain Frederick van Wyk said: "We don't know when he will appear in court."
Gauteng seized firearms and ammunition caches in swoops last week.
Recent arms busts are concerning, according to arms expert Henri Boshoff, who said the arms could be sold or rented to criminals.
Boshoff, head of the Institute for Security Studies' peace missions programme, expressed concern yesterday that some seized ammunition was state-issued and police were linked to the illegal firearms.
National police spokesman Colonel Vish Naidoo said the police were concerned that people had illegal guns, but stressed that not all incidents were linked.
"The only two that are possibly linked are the one in Katlehong and Boksburg."
Boshoff said the fact that illegal arms were seized at houses where Nazi flags were founf should not ring alarm bells.
"South Africa is a very diverse country with a lot of people still believing and honouring different things. I don't see a conspiracy."
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