AK47

MR COETZEE: We found two AK47 rifles sealed in plastic bags, six magazines, a multitude of mini-limpet mines, detonators, handgrenades, RDG5 and F1, which were hidden in the vehicle.

... But didn't that even jeopardise the safety and the lives of your operatives if Opperman knew that there was going to be ten MK members armed with AK47 rifles, F1 hand-grenades, whatever it might be? He doesn't tell you, he says "Cloete, get these people ready to penetrate the house, you're ...

MR BRITZ: It was an AK47 with a silencer and at some or other place where there was an embankment, we tested it to see if it was operating.

I did go and pick up weapons from Col Drury, it was only a few AK47's with a fold-up butt, AKM, the ANC only used AKM, they did not use the normal AK47's. The rest of the AK's, we got from Vlakplaas' own storage. We also ensured that it was Russian ammunition. For each weapon we gave two or ...

MR SHANGE: Master gave us the guns. I personally was armed with a pump-gun, Jabulani Ncokwane had an AK47, Jomo also had an AK, Sonny Ngcobo as well, Jabulani Cele had a handgrenade, Senzo Shange had a home-made gun.

MR MAZIBUKO: He had an AK47.

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

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

MR CORNELIUS: You were equipped also with a AK47 with a silencer?

... 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 ...

MR DU PLESSIS: There was a pile of stones packed next to the road so that the askari could see where he was supposed to stop. I was armed with an AK47 silenced gun. We brought the weapons that we were going to use with us from Vlakplaas. All of us were placed at one side of the road among the ...

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.

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

I had an AK47 in my room and I went to fetch that AK47, and I peeped through the widow at the side facing the dam. I realised that they were lighting torches and then I shot towards that light and I told Kuntakana to ran with me. We ran outside together with Kuntakana and we fled.

MR ARMOED: With an AK47.

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...