AK47

MR MPUNGOSE: I was staying with a young man whose name was Zweli Mkunu. He was originally from Lamontville and there was this other young man who would be there sleeping with me in the room who would have his AK47 all the time.

MR MEMANI: Do you remember the incident when Colonel Smith flew to Cape Town to intercept AK47’s which were being shipped from the USSR and were destined for Lesotho?

MR MBHELE: I did not even see one bullet. I heard that they had AK, but although he said they had KK, but I could tell that those were AK, and I hate the sight of AK47 and I was so sure that when I get there I will see such, but I did not.

"Explosives experts found this at the scene. Limpet mines and handgrenades, detonators as well as 4 empty AK47 magazines."

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.

When they were about 2 kilometres from the car they heard gunshots fired from an AK47 rifle.

... is the back room of your Orlando house, with a Scorpion machine pistol in his bag and Oupa Seheri arrived and gave him a crash course in using an AK47 and how they exchanged guns and when Oupa Seheri came back to fetch him, you heard all ...

... 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 ...

"Lt Pretorius instructed Peter Lengene, Monyane and Linda Moni to make sure that the limpet mines were placed nearby ...(indistinct) and if they failed to pull out the pins of the limpet mines they should shoot them with the AK47 rifles."

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

... 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 ...

follows:- On the 29th of September 1992 the applicant and ten (10) others raided the house of Mkhize with rifles and guns. They were armed with an AK47, two 303 rifles, one 308 rifle and a shotgun. The other members of the group were armed with spears and Mkhize was being attacked because ANC ...

Second Applicant was armed with an AK47 obtained from Hechter.  He shot directly at the buildings in order to damage it.

... - the conditions under which he worked were not nice and he disappeared, but he told Sgt Selai about the girlfriend that he had in exile, he had an AK47 that he left outside the country. Mr Selai explained all this to me, I did not know him, but he was telling me about ...

others, AK47 weapons, an RPG7 and also RPK and Makorov

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 MAMASELA: In the Kwandabele 9, the people were ambushed in a house and they shot, all nine of them. They were shot and massacred with AK47's and then one Lieutenant Hechter - you will be meeting with him shortly, he came with a big 25 litre of petrol, he poured in all these corpses and then he ...

The next incident, the murder of Anthony Mzimande, was clearly also on the instructions of Mkhize, after a report was received that an ANC members, armed with AK47's were at a certain house. Again I submit that this clearly emanates from conflicts of the past and have political motive.

MR MAFU: In the execution of the operation was used hand grenades, AK47's and pistols.

MR PRETORIUS: The onslaught on the Police, you must understand that the Protea office was located within Soweto and Sergeant Mong can testify here about an afternoon when he was on his way to the office and he was attacked with an AK47.