Below is a transcript of the dramatic moment when a Presidential Guard boss testifying during the Motlanthe commission declared that the kneeling soldier during the 1 August massacre, fired into the air at a 45 degree angle.

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QN:To your knowledge where any dead bodies recovered, from the environs of that incident that I have just  referred to, where a soldier was kneeling and firing?

ANSWER: “No sir, if you watch that video, closely, that soldier who took kneeling position while firing, if you check properly military experts that rifle was being fired at an angle of 45° in the air and not Direct, into the rioters.” – STORY CONTINUES BELOW –

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QN:And you have examined that video?

ANSWER: “I did.”

QN: And that is your assessment?

“Not my assessment but that is exactly what happened.”