AK47

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.

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

... at Kilner Park, Pretoria, for use by them in the event of a revolution at the time of the first democratic elections in 1994.  The cache included AK47 rifles, RPD machine guns and R5 machine guns and ammunition as well as a quantity of explosives.  All of the above was subsequently handed ...

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. ...

that's with all due respect not entirely correct. You'll remember that the evidence was that he found these six people sleeping at the fountain with AK47's next to them. They then left there Mr Chairman, so there was no doubt in his, there couldn't have been doubt in his mind that they were armed ...

... 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 ...

... regarded a person of 18 years old as a young child. And may I say, with respect, Mr Chairperson, that a young child of eight years old with an AK47 in his hands will kill you just as dead as a 50 year-old person. And in fact all over the world armies are made up of persons between the ages ...

When we were about three or four kilometres we heard a sound at the back, the AK47 sounds. We then realised that something was happening behind us. We then continued, we went forward. I don't know whether you understand me.

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 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 ...

At a later stage I was ordered to go to court, so I was charged and they said they found AK47 at my place. They said there were two that they found, but there was no Exhibit which was brought about. When I went to the Supreme Court it was said that now I had committed arson, 29 of us were ...

"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 ...

... talk about so-called pseudo operations where an item is manufactured and then used afterwards when there is a forensic test done on it - maybe AK47 bullets were found on the scene and it is said this and this happened or that a handgrenade was from Eastern Europe origin, what I would like to ...

CHAIRPERSON: And you were shot and you had the Makarov there. And the other ammunition referred to in charge sixteen, 240 rounds of AK47 ammunition and other ammunition, they were at the safe house, were they?

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.

3. Unlawful possession of petrol bombs; AK47 rifles and ammunition; an unknown number of Russian-made hand-grenades and limpet mines;

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 ...