AK47

MR KAHANOVITZ: He said that he returned to the cottage that he'd hired on a particular day thereafter and he found a parcel that had been left there for him, containing an AK47 and two magazines, this was on the 11th of September, 1989, the day before Adv Lubowski's assassination.

"... under the mattress of the bed, towards the inside of the wall, there was an AK47 storm gun wrapped in a plastic bag. In a black briefcase, there was a .375 Magnum Taurus revolver and a 9mm 39 pistol. I also found a Transkeian passport in the room, containing the photo of the suspect, with ...

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 ...

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 NTOMBENI: AK47.

... Applicant is unable to furnish full particulars of all the weaponry that was procured, these included to the best of his recollection, 7 or 8 AK47 assault rifles and between 5 and 10, 9mm handguns. Applicant was also involved in the legal and illegal acquisition of ammunition for these ...

... 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 ...

... and the attack spurred on even further violence in the area. He also conceded that it was wholly disproportionate to deploy a group armed with 10 AK47 assault rifles in order to kill one person. He indicated that the attack should not have taken place and that to his mind it was the wrong way ...

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.

... retaliatory attacks against the members of the IFP staying at Ngcobo's place. For this purpose the applicant and Thokozani Mbhele were armed with AK47 whilst his other colleagues were armed with self-made pump guns. These weapons belonged to the ANC and were used for such retaliatory attacks ...

... 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 ...

MR TIPP: I'm going to suggest to you that in the immediate vicinity of where you must have been on that description, there was a man from your group who was firing widely with an AK47 during the time of the shooting incident itself.

... for the past two days and ultimately the feeling from the family. The allegations against Petrus Lubane, one, he intended to train people to use AK47's, handling of explosives and to establish a base in Pretoria, the findings that is now regarding the first allegations, the police received ...

MR VISSER: Okay, R2 000. And then for the delivery of an AK47 or the pointing out of an AK47, there was another amount?

MR NGOBESE: I heard that they had found AK47 and hand- grenades, I don't know how many.

The Applicant testified that he acted on instruction of Lieut. Hechter who accompanied him, Lieut. Van Jaarsveld and Sgt. Joe Mamasela. They were armed with AK47 rifles and a home-made explosive, known as a mellow-yellow bomb.

... taken one by one, but I was the first one. Now I was the one who said a lot and after me Ms Mia was the next one. These people were asking about AK47’s, I said I know nothing about AK47’s. They said if this policeman wanted to kill me where were you, what were you going to do about ...

MR NTOMBENI: I wasn't there. On that day we were in Orlando and it so happened that I had an AK47 with me. I was arrested together with Tobogo and Mangena. And at that time we lost that AK47, they arrested Tobogo, they assaulted them.

... to create a picture for you, what I gained out of the information obtained when interrogating ANC members, out of those 55 cachets, I retrieved 10 AK47 rifles and 2 500 bullets, two AND assault weapons, one VZZ sub-machine gun, 10 Scorpio machine pistols and 450 rounds of ammunition, five ...