AK47

Vido and Bekky were both outside the building.  Bekky was armed with an Ak47 assault rifle and was to give the signal to withdraw.  Vido was at the back of the building and armed with an Uzi sub-machine gun and petrol bombs.  Both Vido and Bekkey opened fire at the building and Vido threw his ...

to Mzolo's place, who was a member or leader of the ANC, so that we could see whether they wouldn't launch a counter-attack so that we could get the AK47s. We got one AK47, which I don't know the end of it because O'Connell was using this AK47. We went back to Greytown and we continued with our ...

MR ARMOED: With an AK47.

... information which we had. It was changed to the place where they were shot dead. According to information they were killed at close range with an AK47 in the vehicle shortly after they had stopped. There were approximately 17 AK47 cartridges found on the scene. It appears as though they were ...

It is clear even in this operation, they only had one firearm which was an AK47 and grenade and knife. So it's clear Mr Chairman, that the actions of the applicants were indeed associated with certain political objectives and that of continuing the armed struggle on behalf of their organisation ...

... regardless of your background and your training. And here we had a case where it wasn't a question of two men confronting each other, one with an AK47 and one with an R4 and seeing who would be the winner in the end. Brigadier Schoon, if he had been there, may have had other advice, ...

... 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 ...

... from Kathlehong who unfortunately is not alive currently, his name is Comrade Jackie Macheko, he was a member of MK. He arrived and handed an AK47 to me and as I said earlier, when I was released I realised that people who are attacking the community inside the township are professional ...

MR HATTINGH: Did you hear Mr de Kock's evidence that he gave instruction for explosives devices and AK47 magazines to be taken with and planted at the scene?

MR DE KOCK: Yes, there was an official remuneration scale, amongst others. An AK47 for example, if that was found, then the ...(indistinct) or person who pointed it out was R600, a hand grenade was R299 I think and then there were various scales for ammunition and for rocket launchers and so forth.

... had received any form of training and the other members hadn't received any training, about six of them were then sent, were armed with inter alia, AK47 rifles and petrol bombs to go to the Mbongwa house to kill the eldest son of that family, by taking him out of the house and shooting him, now ...

I had an AK47 in my room and I went to fetch that AK47, and I peeped through the widow at the side facing the dam. I realised that they were lighting torches and then I shot towards that light and I told Kuntakana to ran with me. We ran outside together with Kuntakana and we fled.

MR DU PLESSIS: There was a pile of stones packed next to the road so that the askari could see where he was supposed to stop. I was armed with an AK47 silenced gun. We brought the weapons that we were going to use with us from Vlakplaas. All of us were placed at one side of the road among the ...

MR MALULEKA: What I would call the real training, that really took place in 1987, not 1986, 1987. I was trained in the use of machine guns, AK47 pistols and the use of explosives by my then Commander, who name was Odirele Mishack Maponya and my Commissar whose name was Rodney Toka who is also an ...

MR DU PLESSIS: Can you remember anything about an AK47?

MR GUMBI: The person who had a firearm, was Stambu. It was an AK47 rifle.

... normally be able to cut off the access of attackers into the township. First Applicant was armed with a 9mm pistol and Second Applicant with an AK47 assault rifle. The other members of the SDU were also armed. They concealed themselves and after a short while they noticed two minibus ...

"A usually reliable source during the first week of December 1985, saw an unknown number of AK47 guns and unidentified round metal objects (reputedly landmines) in the possession of a known ANC terrorist in Lesotho. The terrorist made it appear that he and three other cohorts would go to Kimberley ...

... to drink and sprinkle their clothes and told them that they were to use Tswi's Ford to conduct the attack. The weapons they were handed included AK47s as well as guns. He thinks he personally was handed an AK47 (At the trial he pleaded guilty to the possession of a .38 ...

MR BOTHA: I cannot say that these were AK's, we just assumed that they were AK47's, but the gun that was being cocked was definitely a gun, I knew that there were five guns. They were successively cocked, not simultaneously.