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In an interview with the BBC, Cyril Mbatha said the former wife of President Mandela promised to pay him $6,000 and gave him the gun he used.
Mr Mbatha, who is due to testify before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, said he appealed to the family of Dr Abu Baker Asvat for forgiveness.
It is claimed that Mrs Mandela organised the murder of Dr Asvat, because he refused to provide her with an alibi on the day that Stompei Moketsi was beaten.
Mrs Mandela has denied any involvment in the killing.
The allegation comes towards the end of a week of hearings into Mrs Madikizela-Mandela's involvement in eight murders, plus other kidnappings and assaults, carried out in the 1980s.
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One witness has already told the commission that Dr Asvat suggested taking Stompie Seikei to hospital after he was beaten by Mrs Madikizela-Mandela's bodyguards.
Stompie, who was 14, died afterwards. In 1991, Mrs Madikizela-Mandela was convicted of his kidnapping.
Mr Mbatha was convicted of Dr Asvat's murder in 1989 and sentenced to 30 years in jail.
He told the BBC: "The gun that killed Dr Asvat ... we get it from Mrs Mandela's hands.
"She just go somewhere inside the other room and came back with it. It was folded with a piece of sheet.
He added he would appeal to the Asvat family during his testimony to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
"I don't know what I can do for them," he said. "If I was God, I was going to do something that will console them, but what I ask is that I wish to meet them and apologise to them for what I have done."
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