AK47

MR ROSSOUW: You were also issued with an AK47, which was fitted with a silencer, is that correct?

MR SINGH: Grenades were there, there was an AK47 there, there was a Gypsy there, there was mortar there as well.

... from the barrel of thisgun blowing up and obviously this loud bang that went with itgave me such a shock that I ripped off the stock, I had an AK47,and I just kept firing, my hand was being burnt by the barrelbut I was just crazy at that time and we were all firing. ...

MR VIKTOR: Chair, what I can remember is that we operated at two homes in Tembisa. In one case we used an explosive device to attack the home and at the second home, we used AK47's to shoot at the house.

in real life and I saw - I saw both Mr and Mrs MacDonald die and I swung round and looked towards the door and saw the gentleman over there with his AK47, not that I know much but that's just what I assumed and my immediate thought was "Oh God, this is a terrorist attack." From then on I blacked ...

MR NIEUWOUDT: What I can recall is that Mr Hashe told me that he had hidden one AK47 at his sister's house.

as to how firearms were brought into the township etc. We wanted to avoid problems. We were also very critical of people walking around with their AK47's hanging around their bodies like a handbag. That we discouraged, that was not something to be displayed or exhibited to a girlfriend etc. ...

fired at the bus because he was standing some distance away keeping a lookout. The group was armed with an SP12 pump action shotgun (Shange), three AK47 assault rifles (Ncokwane had one) a handgrenade (Cele) and two home ...

... going off. They both ran to the door from the bakery side onto the supermarket. He saw some men. One was carrying what looked like a R4 or AK47. It was very long. He had a briefcase with him. He was smartly ...

... lady across the road from a church in Guguletu during quite an active period and some kids ran through the house that we were in with rifles, with ...

... want to go back there. So the officers came around there, then one Coloured officer, the chief of the Investigation Department shot him with an AK47. Three bullets in the abdomen. He ...

... in a house used by the IR. The house is situated within the ministerial complex in Bisho. The weapons which were of Eastern Bloc origin included AK47 rifles, RPG9's and SAM 7's. SAM 7's are surface to air missiles. And the Commission will note that some of the weapons mentioned here are ...

MR MOTHIBE: I was armed with AK47.

We have then a whole list of incidents that happened in the Ciskei, and although it's certainly not clear that these were all MK operations, but we are talking about 48 handgrenade attacks, 23 AK47 attacks, limpet mine incidents with regard to headmen and ADM members, Ciskei police officers etc.

In order to make the unit win Lengene's trust, thus enabling Lengene to obtain the required information, it was decided that weapons like AK47, handgrenades and an SPM limpet mine would be furnished to the unit and passed on as having been received from the underground structures.

I then learnt that one of the civilians, I don't know his name, the male, was hit through the neck and was in a very critical condition. One of the policeman, a constable, was hit through the - with a flesh wound, through the thigh, and I was hit through the tibia several times with AK47 rifles.

of the unit on the target. The operation was as follows: We were a unit of five operatives, Bheki was appointed as a commander and was carrying an AK47. He was deployed outside the building within the hearing distance of comrade Vido. Vido was deployed outside the building at the back and was ...

... about the R5 rifle, how it was designed and it was only made, it was only made for police use only. They told us that the ANC terrorists had AK47s with a shooting rate of 650 rounds per minute. And that we with our 9 mm and our short guns had no chance against them. This is why the R5 was ...

MR CORNELIUS: You were equipped also with a AK47 with a silencer?

We had to devise some means to eliminate him so as to end all the problems that we had in the township. Late in the evening, I took an AK47 rifle, I started looking for the deceased. I went straight to the place. The deceased died at a place, at a tavern called Culture Club. I realised that he ...