AK47

MR MBAMBO: Explosives, that is hand grenades we called Ama Gabati or Large Stones, guns we used to call Ingoge, such guns as pistols and revolvers, the AK47 rifle was called Igeja.

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?

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 Modipane's home. What I recall is that I threw a hand grenade into the house and the others surrounded the house and they fired shots from AK47 rifles. I still remember vehicles that were used in that attack, their registration numbers were MWD776T, that car was used by Adj Walters from ...

MR GOUWS: There was an AK47.

... abovementioned category - I am not exactly sure about the date but another youth called Kenneth Dhlamine also known as Sithole was killed with an AK47 assault weapon. Kenneth Dhlamini was during 1987 detained by the security branch in terms of section 29 in another case. We can find this ...

MR MOELE: The trained cadres of MK, had they been given one AK47 each, that would still be okay, but then they would also be required to get more weapons, so that they can train the members and use those against any attack.

(i) Supplying an AK47 rifle and ammunition to ANC structures in Sharpeville during or about 1993.

MR LENGANE: And now Mr Molope came out and he got into your line of fire and you started firing with your AK47, please continue.

... contained in it, that people could be charged with terrorism or something like that very easily without necessarily carrying a hand grenade and a AK47. ...

AK47 rifles were used to give an impression that the attackers were members of the ANC or PAC's military wing.

After some time, in 1991, one PAC member, Innocent, was arrested or got arrested for AK47 magazine and he was arrested in Durban at the PAC offices. After his arrest, I frequented the prison to go visit and see him. I will always see this Police who was handling the case of Innocent and the very ...

... anybody who could be parted from it. Even the modern rifle which supplies the South African Defence Force, the R4, has its origins in the humble AK47, albeit with the Israeli intervention in between of the Galil(?) weapon. We know that Armscor would not scruple to beg, borrow, steal if ...

The applicant is GRANTED amnesty for the illegal possession of firearms and ammunition, an AK47 plus 200 rounds of ammunition and 5 steclikin pistols on the 7th of August 1991 in Sebokeng which he held on behalf of the SDU’s in Sebokeng in his capacity as chairperson of the ANC Sebokeng branch.

MR PULE: What I remember is that I trained him how to use the AK47 and the pistol, the grenades, the limpet mines and also how to make the car bomb and how to prepare oneself when you are going to use the car bomb. As far as the political education was concerned, the emphasis was on making sure ...

MR PRIOR: Did you receive training in the use of automatic weapons like the R5, R4 rifle, AK47?

... that it was not just youth or UDF, but that underground structures and they said that the MK were also involved and that people had weapons and AK47's. Do you want to respond to any of ...

Three days later I read Die Beeld and then I saw Jan Shoba was killed in Atteridgeville in a drive-by shooting, I think it was an AK47, and just after I read it, because I thought here I'm sitting the documents and this was a burning issue then and now suddenly this person is killed, I read his ...

On the following day we went to see someone by the name of Kaili Hlembatha. He then told us that he couldn't give us an AK47, but he would be able to assist us by giving us a 303. He didn't give this to us on the same day. We went back to the place or the house where we arrived.

MR ZULU: On the 2nd of March we went out to dig out the weapons we had concealed. There were two Ak47's, V11 and a 303 firearm. We thereafter left. There was a steep hill where we hid behind some trees. That is where we waited until the vehicle approached and when it approached we went out onto ...