AK47

Mr Kgase, I noticed that in your application form at page 52 of the bundle, in reply to the question where you are asked to state the nature and the particulars of the offences in respect of which you are applying, you make mention of AK47s. Was there any incident in which you had to use an AK47?

... was, during 1993-1994, a member of the African National Congress in Mozambique. He participated in activities amounting to unlawful possession of AK47 machine guns; unlawful possession of ammunition; unlawful possession of hand grenades; unlawful possession of firearms and unlawful possession ...

MR MOPEDI: So you want to tell this hearing that at no stage did you carry a firearm, an AK47?

MR PIENAAR: Col de Kock immediately ran to the vehicle. I followed him, so did the other members. Mr Theron had a light which followed afterwards, he didn't shine the light from the beginning. The front door of the kombi went open and a person emerged with an AK47 gun in his hands.

MR MADONDO: An AK47 rifle.

In the result amnesty is hereby GRANTED to the Applicant in respect of all offences directly resulting from the unlawful possession of 2 x AK47 assault rifles and ammunition at Thokoza, Gauteng during 1993.

told while we were in the stadium, that there are firearms, those who want to use them, can come and collect them. I was one of those who wanted an AK47 and because the number was small, the number of firearms was not enough I found that they had already finished all the AK47's, so I was armed ...

MR HUGO: But is it not true that there were proper structures for members of Vlakplaas in terms whereof they would be rewarded if weapons were found, like AK47's?

MR CELE: I had an AK47 and a hand grenade.

these people were sitting and having something to eat there and they got up and opened their jackets and they just ... or opened up the butts of the AK47’s and then they took off and that’s when they started shooting. So they were there long before, they had already sized the whole place up. ...

We got into the vehicle. We were armed with weapons. We had an AK47, which was given to Wilson Mtetwa and I was given a 9mm pistol".

... are clear indicia(?) of surrounding circumstances, for instance the evidence of the other co-applicants that Hashe disclosed the existence of an AK47 at his sister's house. Now that, and I make the submission that if we assume that these people were, the victims were fearless of the security ...

MR GOOSEN: This time a Skyline motor vehicle was used - Lieut Hechter came there with a Skyline vehicle, he removed three AK47 rifles from the boot, as well as a mellow-yellow bomb.

MR BOOYENS: Mr de Kock, if someone would be shot at very close range with an AK47, would there be serious damage to the person?

... to me against a stone. I was tossed aside, I was not injured, but I went into the room and shot the person as he was still standing next to his AK47. ...

MR DLAMINI: Yes that is correct. We left from Mrs Mbuyazi's house and we were armed with an assortment of guns, G3's AK47's, shotguns and we were proceeding to J1. The van left us at J1 and then left. Anybody who was around the area or any house that had its lights on was attacked. We attacked ...

... and the 2nd applicant submitted a second completed application form for amnesty. In such forms they both state that the 2nd applicant received the AK47 from Magwaza, that they were both present when the two groups confronted each other and that they fired at the ANC group as they believed they ...

... by Mr Lubane, because he wanted to start a unit in Pretoria, around Pretoria district to train youth members for military training in the use of AK47's and explosives. Then he told me that he would train me so that I would be able to train others this ...

MR LEGODI: After we were given that order we sat down to plan about what to use and the road we should take. We made a decision that we should take an AK47 and a hand-grenade, and one AK47. We went to that particular house.

... extracts from the inquest findings of Mr Justice Levy, Anton’s death was attributed to being shot seven times on various parts of his body with an AK47 rifle and a final shot through the head with a different calibre ...