AK47

MR ZULU: On the 2nd of March we went out to dig out the weapons we had concealed. There were two Ak47's, V11 and a 303 firearm. We thereafter left. There was a steep hill where we hid behind some trees. That is where we waited until the vehicle approached and when it approached we went out onto ...

... According to the reports that you got after the attack, was the reason furnished, was it the only reason furnished that they heard a cock of an AK47, that's why they shot back? I don't know whether that was your evidence, or I'm ...

AK47 rifles were used to give an impression that the attackers were members of the ANC or PAC's military wing.

the day I would want to summarise this thing because we think as a community of Piet Retief. Okay. Then Mr Nkosi was killed at one o'clock with an AK47 inside his yard. Up to to date nobody was arrested and up to to date nobody knows who shot Mr Nkosi. The situation went worse. Before the end ...

On the following day we went to see someone by the name of Kaili Hlembatha. He then told us that he couldn't give us an AK47, but he would be able to assist us by giving us a 303. He didn't give this to us on the same day. We went back to the place or the house where we arrived.

MR PRIOR: Did you receive training in the use of automatic weapons like the R5, R4 rifle, AK47?

MR LENGANE: And now Mr Molope came out and he got into your line of fire and you started firing with your AK47, please continue.

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.

(i) Supplying an AK47 rifle and ammunition to ANC structures in Sharpeville during or about 1993.

Evidence has been led that during the questioning Hashe admitted keeping an AK47 at his sister's place. This soon turned out to have been a lie as Hashe later said he was lying and had done so to relieve himself from further assaults. The deception is said to have infuriated his ...

... that it was not just youth or UDF, but that underground structures and they said that the MK were also involved and that people had weapons and AK47's. Do you want to respond to any of ...

... 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 ...

... contained in it, that people could be charged with terrorism or something like that very easily without necessarily carrying a hand grenade and a AK47. ...

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.

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?

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

2.3 1 x AK47 rifle with ammunition.

... him that we were going to do Molope this evening, Moreki is - Makhura is observing the house. And then we also brought along Makhura's weapon, an AK47. ...

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 ...