AK47

MR SIBEKO: Now let us get this clear. Your involvement in these incidents, were you also carrying a firearm or an AK47 and did you at any stage pull the trigger to shoot at anybody?

MR MOKHALI: We went to buy AK47 magazines. Each magazine costs R150.

After six weeks we started advanced training. This went on for about three months. This is where we were taught how to use AK47 rifles, RPD's, RPK's and light machine guns, Bazuka's, explosives. We were also taught rural guerrilla warfare, urban guerrilla warfare.

MR MATHE: Firstly, my first crash course was at Atteridgeville. It was mainly on the use of a pistol and AK47.

MR VISSER: AK47 guns?

are you going to catch this man here?" Those who ran away might have had firearms, because they were wearing these coats, so Mulabise, who had the AK47, forgive me for being fast, Mulabise, as we called him Mushegas, shot at this person. This guy was alone. We could not use all our AK's, ...

MR SIBANYONI: Mr Mhlaba, if you can look at the first page of Mr Wanyane, paragraph 9, he speaks about possession of two AK47 rifles and then, but when he was listing the weapons, he spoke about one, is it perhaps a mistake?

CHAIRPERSON: What sort of firearm was it? Was it an AK47, a pistol, a revolver, what sort of firearm?

"A usually reliable source during the first week of December 1985, reported a number of AK47 rifles and unidentified round objects, presumably landmines, in the possession of an MK terrorist. This terrorist stated that he and three other cohorts would travel to Bloemfontein and Kimberley before ...

... the Applicant, on the day in question, went to visit his sister who lived in an informal settlement in the town of Ixopo. He was armed with an AK47 rifle. When at the outskirts of town he hid the rifle under a cardboard box close to the road. He then proceeded into the town. He was seen ...

(c) 537 rounds of 7,65mm AK47 machine rifle ammunition.

MR BOSCH: That's correct, Chairperson, there was a list listing various amounts, like for instance R750 for getting an AK47. If you eliminated somebody you got R2 000 etcetera, handgrenade, so much money. So there was an official scale and we worked according to that scale.

Unlawful possession of an AK47 rifle without a license and

MR LAMEY: Let's proceed to the next page, page 41. You say that certain preparations were made for the weapons which would be used. You mention that every member of the group had a Scorpion hand machine-gun with a silencer and that every member also had an AK47.

is skuldig bevind aan sewe aanklagtes van moord, sewe en twintig aanklagtes van poging tot moord en twee aanklagte waarin die onwettige besit van 'n AK47 geweer en ammunisie beweer is. 'n Afskrif van die klagstaat waaruit volledige besonderhede verkry is, word hierby aangeheg en waaruit ook blyk ...

... na die toneel te bring. Al tien mans wat die beriggewers sou insluit, sou aan die operasie deelneem. Hy het ook gerapporteer dat hulle reeds ‘n AK47 geweer sowel as R1-gewere, handwapens en handgranate in hulle besit ...

... up what’s happened in the past with the cycle of violence, we just blame it on outsiders coming in with Mafia, Mafio power and bank robberies and AK47’s and all of that kind of thing. So it’s another world that is there and it’s tangible and real and I don’t think very much of any of us who ...

Was this matter reported to the police? --- Police came. My son, my elder son, was shot by an AK47 and he was admitted in hospital. For nine months he stayed there. His name is Petros. Was he there? --- Yes, he was in the church, and he got injured. He didn't die, he is just limping now.

MR STRYDOM: I was carrying an AK47 Chairperson. The vehicle caught fire and we moved closer but the fire was so hot that the heat drove us back. We could not reach the vehicle. Accordingly I withdrew all the members and we moved back to the RSA. The vehicle was destroyed by the fire and later I ...

... Mbambo at the house of Patrick Dube. They borrowed Dube's car and asked applicant it drive them to the home of Mrs. Mabuyazi. They both carried AK47 rifles. When they arrived at the home of Mabuyazi, they went in while he remained in the vehicle. He did not know what the two had come to ...