AK47

... the African National Congress in Durban, my family was attacked. My wife Constance, my daughter Margaret and a grandson Sabatha were shot dead with AK47's at close range. They were crowded together in a lavatory which was pointed to me thereafter on my arrival in Durban. They were brutally ...

... were supplied free in order to gain future zones of influence in the strategic areas of the world. There is no coincidence in the fact that the AK47 is the commonly used weapon in the areas of conflict to say nothing of Russian tanks, aircraft, trucks and other equipment made by ...

... Natal region, but somewhere, as to how many weapons, what there nature, the type of weapons, etc that were delivered to Southern Natal and if three AK47's went to Umkababa and two went to Inanda or whatever, would there be that sort of record somewhere in the MK offices, either at Headquarters or ...

... Just to finally close on this point, as we heard from previous Amnesty Hearings, there were incidents where the information was that let's say AK47 weapons were involved, but that Murder and Robbery were not investigated but then the Security Branch will take over the investigation and be ...

MR VAN RENSBERG: Did you see Mr Swanepoeljumping into the room, away from the previous applicant which had the AK47,could you see that?

depart from the point that I would approach that truck driver because I linked the mandrax smugglers with that man. If he told me that he wanted an AK47 or whatever, I would see to it that he would get whatever it is that he wants. I knew that it would be for an illegal reason, but I would make ...

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

i) unlawful possession of 17 AK47 firearms;

He went to his room and armed himself with an AK47 assault rifle. He then went to a place that he knew Ndebele passed regularly and waiting for him. When he saw Ndebele drive past he followed him to his home. Ndebele parked his vehicle and went inside the shack.

... do not have the cars. However, when the shooting started it took about ten minutes for them to arrive. They should have heard the sounds of an AK47 because it was very loud. I wonder if they did not hear the sound of the ...

MR COETSEE: There were AK47's, there were limpet mines and also handgrenades.

We have heard in our experience in these hearings, that you often had Units and then they had their AK47's and hand grenades and whatever, they had arms when they went on an operation. If an operative did not have an arm, would he be issued with an arm, a weapon of some sort?

11. Unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition. These being an R4 or R5 rifle, an AK47 rifle, ammunition for these weapons and hand and rifle grenades.

AMNESTY IS HEREBY GRANTED: to the abovenamed Applicant in respect of the unlawful possession of an AK47 rifle and ammunition committed at or near Kathlehong on or about 13 December 1993.

MR VISSER: To interrupt you there, do you have any knowledge of any - we have heard of an AK47 and a limpet mine which was planted in the kombi, do you have any personal knowledge thereof?

Mr Moele testified that he was requested by his Commander, Mr Mametse, to urgently find R10 000 in order to buy eight AK47 sub machine guns and hand grenades. They collected about half of the amount, but needed the balance urgently because they feared that they might miss the opportunity to buy ...

... had a big braai in the evening, and in the morning they put out lots of cases of ammunition and rows of weapons and we had great fun, shooting off AK47's, Uzi's, all sorts of ...

Amongst ourselves it was myself and Maxim (indistinct) Phakamisa and (indistinct) Mhlutwa and Xama Qungishi. We were armed in the following manner. Myself, I had a 303 rifle and Phakamisa had an AK47 and an explosive called M57.

MR SKOSANA: We only had two guns, AK47 and hand grenades.

When we arrived at Mr Jafta's place we were shot at with an AK47 rifle. We ran away. We ran out of the yard. We didn't actually leave. There was a dense forest just behind the shop, we walked around the forest because we could see that the person who was shooting was actually in that forest.