AK47

... him to be ready to go on an operation. Taylor, Vorster and Du Preez then met at the farm. Taylor explained the operation to them and handed two AK47 automatic assault rifles to Du ...

has been led that the applicants before the Committee are very unsophisticated people, even their struggle was not one with hand grenades, bombs and AK47's. That should be noted and even in the application forms, they didn't have the opportunity of the application forms being filled by the ...

MR SHANGE: Master gave us the guns. I personally was armed with a pump-gun, Jabulani Ncokwane had an AK47, Jomo also had an AK, Sonny Ngcobo as well, Jabulani Cele had a handgrenade, Senzo Shange had a home-made gun.

I did go and pick up weapons from Col Drury, it was only a few AK47's with a fold-up butt, AKM, the ANC only used AKM, they did not use the normal AK47's. The rest of the AK's, we got from Vlakplaas' own storage. We also ensured that it was Russian ammunition. For each weapon we gave two or ...

... around half past six, we attacked the place. We were a Unit of four, the fifth one, Wando Silegeno was at work at the time. I was armed with an AK47 rifle, Tsotetsi with a 9mm pistol, Dalisolo with a knife and Xaba was not armed. We used a taxi to this place. This place was surrounded with ...

MR MAMETSE: One of the objectives was to acquire handguns, short guns because the material that we had mostly consisted of AK47 and there was a need to have a short gun for personal protection, among other reasons.

GRANTED AMNESTY: in respect of the unlawful possession of one AK47 rifle, one 9mm Star pistol, one Stetchken pistol and 48 rounds of ammunition for which he was arrested on 12 November 1993.

... caused in your township, then you are a member of a self defence unit, it is your objective to defend your community. You are in possession of an AK47 in order to achieve that objective which is to defend your community and you want us - you are telling us that if you had established that the ...

... Norman Madopa who was the driver of the get-away-car, a blue Stanza. They collected the applicant and Goodman. Sithole gave the applicant an AK47 rifle and ordered him to participate in the attack on Sgt. Morget's house who was viewed by the comrades as sell-out as he was very active in ...

... was over.  He then went back to fetch them.  He had used a police kombi with false registration letters and numbers.  They were armed with AK47 machine guns with silencers.  The vehicle had been modified and fitted with invisible panels where the arms were hidden.  Flores confirms ...

"A war against the ANC. The assassination of political leaders was high on their agenda. De Kock had several meetings with Viljoen and also supplied 60 AK47’s to Riaan van Rensburg"

1. The unlawful possession of firearms, on 7,62 x 39 calibre AK47.

... But didn't that even jeopardise the safety and the lives of your operatives if Opperman knew that there was going to be ten MK members armed with AK47 rifles, F1 hand-grenades, whatever it might be? He doesn't tell you, he says "Cloete, get these people ready to penetrate the house, you're ...

MR JONKER: So Sir, if you drive with your police car down the road and you were still in the Police Force and there's a man walking down the road with an AK47 and you arrest him, would that be an action?

MR VAN VUUREN: Through the activities of myself and CaptainHechter, we normally had explosives, landmines, AK47 rifles andso forth which we had available in our vehicle.

MR MOELE: Firstly because we had AK47 sub-machine guns, we needed the pistols for personal security and also to train SDU comrades with these firearms that we got inside the country, in South Africa.

MR VAN DEN BERG: Were you given an instruction to fire rounds through the AK47 before you left it in the vehicle?

6. the unlawful possession of various firearms including AK47 assault rifles, shotguns, pistols and revolvers and ammunitions for such firearms during or about the period 1992 - 1993 at Gauteng in regard to the activities of the Self Defence Unit under Applicant's command.

MR PRINSLOO: And evidence has already been given that the people had AK47 East block weapons with them.

MR ZUMA: As we were using the homemade guns and big guns, we got ammunition for 9mm and R1 ammunitions and R4 rifles ammunition. We had different types of homemade guns. One of the guns that we had was an AK47.